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Vanilla Forums software is still affected by a critical remote code execution zero

Security Affairsby @securityaffairs ()2 min read2 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2016-10033
Command Injection RCE in PHPMailer (Ships with WordPress and Joomla)
9.8100%KEVPoC ×14
KEV
CVE-2016-10045
The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary…
9.898%PoC ×6
CVE-2016-10073
The from method in library/core/class.email.php in Vanilla Forums before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to spoof the email domain in sent messages and…
7.584%PoC ×3

From the original article

2 min read at securityaffairs.com

The popular Vanilla Forums software is still affected by a critical remote code execution zero-day first reported to the development team in December 2016. The exploit code was published by ExploitBox, a remote attacker can chain the flaw with the Host Header injection vulnerability CVE-2016-10073 to execute arbitrary code and take the control of the affected software.

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