🛡️ CVE-2012-0796 — phpmailer

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

PHPMailer vulnerable to email header injection

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](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)

Weakness class

CVE-2012-0796 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2012-0796 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phpmailer/phpmailer (fixed in 2.2.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 October 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
git.moodle.org (Web)
github.com (Package)
moodle.org (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-10-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmailer/phpmailer — 2.2.1

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