CVE-2007-3215

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.024 · 84 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.41% (84th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USLLM-inferred

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
phpmailer phpmailer= 1.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phpmailer:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpmailer phpmailer= 1.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phpmailer:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpmailer phpmailer= 1.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phpmailer:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpmailer phpmailer= 1.7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phpmailer:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpmailer phpmailer= 1.73nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phpmailer:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Packagist phpmailer/phpmailer< 1.7.4osvUSpkg:composer/phpmailer/phpmailer

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-6h78-85v2-mmchPHPMailer Shell command injection2024-02-02ghsa · osvUS
PHPMailer before 1.7.4, when configured to use sendmail, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via shell metacharacters in the SendmailSend function in `class.phpmailer.php`. ### Impact Shell command injection, remotely exploitable if host application does not filter user data appropriately. ### Patches Fixed in 1.7.4 ### Workarounds Filter and validate user-supplied data before putting in the into the `Sender` property. ### References https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3215 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open a private issue in [the PHPMailer project](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2007-06-14modified 2026-06-16

references (34)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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