CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-36326

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2021-04-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-04-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

PHPMailer 6.1.8 through 6.4.0 allows object injection through Phar Deserialization via addAttachment with a UNC pathname. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2018-19296, but arose because 6.1.8 fixed a functionality problem in which UNC pathnames were always considered unreadable by PHPMailer, even in safe contexts. As an unintended side effect, this fix eliminated the code that blocked addAttachment exploitation.

Affected configurations

• phpmailer project phpmailer (>= 6.1.8 <= 6.4.0) • wordpress wordpress (>= 3.7 < 3.7.36) • wordpress wordpress (>= 3.8 < 3.8.36) • wordpress wordpress (>= 3.9 < 3.9.34) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.0 < 4.0.33) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.1 < 4.1.33) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.2 < 4.2.30) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.3 < 4.3.26) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.4 < 4.4.25) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.5 < 4.5.24) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.6 < 4.6.21) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.7 < 4.7.21) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.8 < 4.8.17) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.9 < 4.9.18) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.0 < 5.0.13) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.1 < 5.1.10) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.2 < 5.2.11) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.3 < 5.3.8) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.4 < 5.4.6) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.5 < 5.5.5) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.6 < 5.6.4) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.7 < 5.7.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References