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FKIE_CVE-2016-9483

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-07-13 20:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

The PHP form code generated by PHP FormMail Generator deserializes untrusted input as part of the phpfmg_filman_download() function. A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to use this vulnerability to inject PHP code, or along with CVE-2016-9484 to perform local file inclusion attacks and obtain files from the server.

References

URL	Tags
cret@cert.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94778	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.org	https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/494015	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94778	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/494015	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	jqueryform	php_formmail_generator	-

JSON

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          "product": "Generator",
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    }
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    },
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      "value": "El c\u00f3digo PHP generado por PHP FormMail Generator deserializa las entradas no fiables como parte de la funci\u00f3n phpfmg_filman_download(). Un atacante remoto no autenticado podr\u00eda emplear esta vulnerabilidad para inyectar c\u00f3digo PHP o emplearla junto con CVE-2016-9484 para realizar ataques de inclusi\u00f3n de archivos locales y obtener archivos desde el servidor."
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:56:08.977",
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          "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL",
          "baseScore": 7.5,
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  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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      "type": "Secondary"
    },
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      ],
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}

CVE-2016-9483 (GCVE-0-2016-9483)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-13 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:50

Title

PHP FormMail Generator generates PHP code for standard web forms, and the code generated is vulnerable to unsafe deserialization of untrusted data

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-502

Assigner

certcc mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/494015	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94778	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
PHP FormMail	Generator	Affected: 2016-12-06 , < 2016-12-06 (custom)

Date Public

2016-12-08 00:00

Credits

Thanks to Pouya Darabi for reporting this vulnerability.

Show details on NVD website

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