CVE-2007-3215

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

PHPMailer 1.7, when configured to use sendmail, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via shell metacharacters in the SendmailSend function in class.phpmailer.php.

Affected products

PHPMailer: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.73

References

http://larholm.com/2007/06/11/phpmailer-0day-remote-execution/
http://osvdb.org/37206
http://osvdb.org/76139
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/223
http://secunia.com/advisories/25626
http://secunia.com/advisories/25755
http://secunia.com/advisories/25758
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2802
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=517428&group_id=157374
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1315
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471065/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24417

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