Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting libphp-phpmailer package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBPHPPHPMAILER-298004
  • published20 Jul 2017
  • disclosed20 Jul 2017

Introduced: 20 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11503  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 libphp-phpmailer.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libphp-phpmailer package and not the libphp-phpmailer package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

PHPMailer 5.2.23 has XSS in the "From Email Address" and "To Email Address" fields of code_generator.php.