CVE-2013-3160: Microsoft Office

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 23.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP3, Word 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP3, and Word Viewer allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, aka "XML External Entities Resolution Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2003 only; version 2007 only
• Microsoft Word: version 2003 only; version 2007 only
• Microsoft Word Viewer: any version

Published 2013-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.