🛡️ CVE-2006-5734 — phpmailer

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

PHPMailer Local file inclusion

Impact

Arbitrary local file inclusion via the $lang property, remotely exploitable if host application passes unfiltered user data into that property. The 3 CVEs listed are applications that used PHPMailer that were vulnerable to this problem.

Patches

It's not known exactly when this was fixed in the host applications, but it was fixed in PHPMailer 5.2.0.

Workarounds

Filter and validate user-supplied data before use.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5734

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3215

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2021

Example exploit: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14893

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

  • Open a private issue in [the PHPMailer project](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)

Affected software

CVE-2006-5734 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phpmailer/phpmailer (fixed in 5.2.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-02-02
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmailer/phpmailer — 5.2.0

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