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SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-58mj-pw57-4vm2)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423509

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - PHPMailer 5.2.23 has XSS in the "From Email Address" and "To Email Address" fields of code_generator.php.
 (CVE-2017-11503)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-58mj-pw57-4vm2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423509

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-11503

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11503

BID: 99293

cwe: CWE-79