CVE-2016-10033 — PHPMailer Command Injection Vulnerability

CVE-2016-10033 (PHP PHPMailer) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2025-07-07. PHPMailer contains a command injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2016-10033 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2025-07-07. PHPMailer contains a command injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input. Specifically, this issue affects the 'mail()' function of 'class.phpmailer.php' script. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
PHP
Affected product
PHPMailer
Added to CISA KEV
2025-07-07
US federal remediation due date
2025-07-28
Ransomware association
Unknown
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-77, CWE-88

Remediation: the required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

A catalog entry tells you a vulnerability is being exploited somewhere. It does not tell you whether it matters in your estate, who owns the fix, or what evidence an auditor will ask for later. That is the work VulnTrek does: it takes findings from the tools you already run, decides which exposure actually matters, routes it to an owner, keeps remediation human-approved and retains the lineage as evidence.

Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.