CVE-2015-8476
Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in PHPMailer before 5.2.14 allow attackers to inject arbitrary SMTP commands via CRLF sequences in…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in PHPMailer before 5.2.14 allow attackers to inject arbitrary SMTP commands via CRLF sequences in an (1) email address to the validateAddress function in class.phpmailer.php or (2) SMTP command to the sendCommand function in class.smtp.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0796.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistphpmailer/phpmailerGHSA-738m-f33v-qc2r (opens in a new tab)
References
8
- https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/6687a96a18b8f12148881e4ddde795ae477284b0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-39522bb8c9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151204 Re: CVE Request: PHPMailer Message Injection Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3416 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-abf9659276 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 78619 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151204 CVE Request: PHPMailer Message Injection Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0337 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-738m-f33v-qc2r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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