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CVE-2016-10045
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-30T19:59:00.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:38:57.007

Summary

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.

Affected products

phpmailer_project — phpmailer

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References

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