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by janci 3463 days ago
If I understand, only implementations using "sendmail" (ie. not mail() or SMTP) are affected.
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DCoder 3463 days ago
That's not correct, the added escapeshellarg() call is inside the mailSend() function, which sends mail through php's mail(). See [1].

[1]: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blame/4835657cd639fbd...

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SwellJoe 3463 days ago
But, if something comes into the mail server via SMTP, it's gonna be protected by the mail servers own defenses. Unless the MTA also has a similar vulnerability, it wouldn't be dangerous in the SMTP case. Right? Or are you saying just the PHP mail() function is similarly exploitable?
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DCoder 3463 days ago
The parent post said "only implementations using sendmail (ie. not mail() or SMTP) are affected".

From my reading of the code, "only implementations using mail() (ie. not sendmail or SMTP) are affected".

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