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 2.10

  • Added AttrIndent option (patch from Volker Moell)
  • Hash keys are now sorted alphabetically by default; enable the new NoSort option if you don't want this (patch from Volker Moell)
  • Fixed bug where disabling array folding broke anonymous array handling
  • Fixed bug when unfolding a tied hash
  • SuppressEmpty patch from Douglas Wilson
  • Numerous test improvements - Devel::Cover rocks!
  • POD update re XMLin(XMLout($data)) caveats (bug report from Slaven Rezic)

Documentation

Modules

Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files)