CVE-2012-0796

mediumpriority · track · 17EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.68% (77th) EPSS
CVSS 4 · medium
Is it mine?
29 products
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Who says so?
3 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

class.phpmailer.php in the PHPMailer library, as used in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 and other products, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary e-mail headers via vectors involving a crafted (1) From: or (2) Sender: header.

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cvss

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

4.0
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.4–4

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9
v2.03.4lowAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

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CWE-94USprimaryCWE-94US
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affected products (29)

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advisories (1)

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  • GHSA-398j-f7m7-795jPHPMailer vulnerable to email header injection2022-10-06ghsa · osvUS

    ### Impact Arbitrary additional email headers can be injected via crafted From or Sender headers. ### Patches Fixed in 2.2.1 ### Workarounds Filter user-supplied values prior to using them in From or Sender properties. ### References https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0796 ### 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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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvdnvdosvNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2012-07-17modified 2026-06-16
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references (8)

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