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 2.05

  • fixed warnings when NormaliseSpace undefined (reported by Peter Scott and others)
  • added support for specifying ForceArray using regular expressions (patch from Jim Cromie)
  • added check to escape_value to guard against undefined argument (reported by Henrik Gemal)
  • added NoIndent option (requested by Afroze Husain Zubairi)

Documentation

Modules

Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files)