Medium
Security advisory
PHPMailer 5.2.23 has XSS in the "From Email Address" and "To Email Address" fields of code_generator.php.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-11503
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
PHPMailer 5.2.23 has XSS in the "From Email Address" and "To Email Address" fields of code_generator.php.
osv:CVE-2017-11503
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11503",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2017-11503",
"summary": "PHPMailer 5.2.23 has XSS in the \"From Email Address\" and \"To Email Address\" fields of code_generator.php.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-11503",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
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"GHSA-58mj-pw57-4vm2"
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"metrics": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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"type": "GIT",
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmailer_project:phpmailer:5.2.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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"introduced": "5.2.23"
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}
]
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}
],
"versions": [
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"database_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:41.514472403Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.24",
"https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer",
"https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060181",
"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143138/phpmailer-xss.txt"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
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{
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 379631,
"published_at": "2017-07-20T23:29:00.31+00:00"
}