High
Security advisory
PHPMailer before 6.1.6 contains an output escaping bug when the name of a file attachment contains a double quote character. This can result in the file type being misinterpreted by the receiver or any mail relay processing the message.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13625
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
PHPMailer before 6.1.6 contains an output escaping bug when the name of a file attachment contains a double quote character. This can result in the file type being misinterpreted by the receiver or any mail relay processing the message.
osv:CVE-2020-13625
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SMH4TC5XTS3KZVGMSKEPPBZ2XTZCKKCX/",
"https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v6.1.6",
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00004.html",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4505-1/",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-06-08T17:15:10.097+00:00"
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