An issue was discovered in PHPMailer before 5.2.22. PHPMailer's msgHTML method applies transformations to an HTML document to make it usable as an email...
nvd · CVSS 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NLow · next 30 days
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An issue was discovered in PHPMailer before 5.2.22. PHPMailer's msgHTML method applies transformations to an HTML document to make it usable as an email message body. One of the transformations is to convert relative image URLs into attachments using a script-provided base directory. If no base directory is provided, it resolves to /, meaning that relative image URLs get treated as absolute local file paths and added as attachments. To form a remote vulnerability, the msgHTML method must be called, passed an unfiltered, user-supplied HTML document, and must not set a base directory.
phpmailer/CVE-2017-5223
PHPMailer Arbitrary File Read (CVE-2017-5223)
Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2017-5223 demonstrating arbitrary file read via PHPMailer's attachment and email content injection.
Maciek Krupa · php · Oct 25, 2017
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