Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting phpmailer/phpmailer package, versions <5.2.10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
86.21% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHPMAILERPHPMAILER-2980400
  • published15 Aug 2022
  • disclosed14 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 May 2022

CVE-2008-5619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phpmailer/phpmailer to version 5.2.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via html2text.php of Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible via a crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

CVSS Scores

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