🛡️ CVE-2024-53860 — sp-php-email-handler

🟠 CVSS 8.6 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 NVD

8.6

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SPEmailHandler-PHP has Potential Abuse for Sending Arbitrary Emails

Impact

Messages sent using this script are vulnerable to abuse, as the script allows anybody to specify arbitrary email recipients and include user-provided content in confirmation emails. This could enable malicious actors to use your server to send spam, phishing emails, or other malicious content, potentially damaging your domain's reputation and leading to blacklisting by email providers.

Patches

Patched in version 1.0.0 by removing user-provided content from confirmation emails. All pre-release versions (alpha and beta) are vulnerable to this issue and should not be used.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue. Users must upgrade to version 1.0.0 to mitigate the vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2024-53860 is recorded against 2 packages.

spencer14420/sp-php-email-handler (fixed in 1.0.0)
unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 27 November 2024 and last revised on 2 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 8.6

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE CWE-74

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2024-11-27

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2024-12-02

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
spencer14420/sp-php-email-handler	—	1.0.0
unknown	—	—

References

WEB https://github.com/Spencer14420/SPEmailHandler-PHP/security/advisories/GHSA-mj5r-x73q-fjw6

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53860

WEB https://github.com/Spencer14420/SPEmailHandler-PHP/commit/6f00dd0d44ff27889aed2980a5ba06e60d83549d

PACKAGE https://github.com/Spencer14420/SPEmailHandler-PHP

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