CVE detail
CVE-2016-10033 — PHPMailer Command Injection Vulnerability
Published 2025-07-07 · Modified 2025-07-07 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.9971
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
100.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2025-07-28
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2025-07-07, federal remediation due 2025-07-28.
Description
PHPMailer contains a command injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input. Specifically, this issue affects the 'mail()' function of 'class.phpmailer.php' script. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References