GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j: PHPMailer vulnerable to email header injection

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PHPMailer vulnerable to email header injection

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 6, 2022 in PHPMailer/PHPMailer • Updated Oct 6, 2022

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Package

composer phpmailer/phpmailer (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.2.1

Patched versions

2.2.1

Description

Impact

Arbitrary additional email headers can be injected via crafted From or Sender headers.

Patches

Fixed in 2.2.1

Workarounds

Filter user-supplied values prior to using them in From or Sender properties.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0796

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open a private issue in the PHPMailer project

References

• GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j

Synchro published the maintainer security advisory

Mar 5, 2020

Severity

High

Weaknesses

CWE-94

CVE ID

CVE-2012-0796

GHSA ID

GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j

Source code

PHPMailer/PHPMailer

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