CVE-2015-8935: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sapi_header_op function in main/SAPI.c in PHP before 5.4.38, 5.5.x before 5.5.22, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6 supports deprecated line folding without considering browser compatibility, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against Internet Explorer by leveraging (1) %0A%20 or (2) %0D%0A%20 mishandling in the header function.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.4.37; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.5.2 only; version 5.5.3 only; version 5.5.4 only; …

Published 2016-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.