CVE-2016-10045
CRITICALPHPMailer <5.2.20 - RCE
Title source: llmDescription
The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033.
Exploits (3)
exploitdb
WORKING POC
by Dawid Golunski · pythonwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40986
exploitdb
WORKING POC
by Dawid Golunski · pythonwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40969
References (15)
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.9337
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-77
Status
published
Products (4)
joomla/joomla\!
1.5.0 - 3.6.5
phpmailer/phpmailer
5.0.0 - 5.2.20Packagist
phpmailer_project/phpmailer
< 5.2.20
wordpress/wordpress
< 4.7
Published
Dec 30, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026