Security Advisories (1)
CPANSA-XML-Simple-2018-01 (2018-02-18)

The No. 4 item on the OWASP top 10 is external XML entities. When using XML::Parser, XML::Simple is currently vulnerable by default.

Changes for version 2.17

  • Added parse_string(), parse_file() and parse_fh() methods
  • Added default_config_file(), and build_simple_tree() hook methods
  • Tweak to implementation of exporting (patch from Stuart Moore)
  • Documented hook methods
  • Fixed test suite race condition (RT#28603 from Andreas J. König)

Documentation

Modules

Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files)