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 2.22 - 2015-12-05

  • POD fix in link to package XML::SAX::ParseFactory (from Mohammad S Anwar)
  • allow subclass to override attribute escaping (from Christopher Masto)
  • POD fix adding NAME section to FAQ (RT#110080 from Bart Martens & gregor herrmann of the Debian project)
  • POD typo fix (RT#110082 from gregor herrmann of the Debian project)
  • fix reference comparison operator used in checking for circular data structures (RT#89553 from Laurent Dami)
  • add better diagnostics from file handling code in test suite

Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions about XML::Simple

Modules

An API for simple XML files