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CVE-2021-3603
HIGH · CVSS 8.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-06-17T12:15:08.150 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:05:25.257

Summary

PHPMailer 6.4.1 and earlier contain a vulnerability that can result in untrusted code being called (if such code is injected into the host project's scope by other means). If the $patternselect parameter to validateAddress() is set to 'php' (the default, defined by PHPMailer::$validator), and the global namespace contains a function called php, it will be called in preference to the built-in validator of the same name. Mitigated in PHPMailer 6.5.0 by denying the use of simple strings as validator function names.

Affected products

phpmailer_project — phpmailer

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References

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