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Joomla Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (Command Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-10045 - Vulnerability Database
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Joomla Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (Command Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-10045

Critical
Reference: CVE-2016-10045
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10045
Title: Joomla Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (Command Injection) Vulnerability
Overview:

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 code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033.