CVE-2013-1643: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 10.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.23 and 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-1824.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.3.21; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0b10 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; …

Published 2013-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.