| Description: | Security vulnerability was reported against PHPMailer, third party library used by Moodle. As a result Moodle improved validation of no-reply address (that can only be configured by admin), all other fields were already properly sanitized. This issue only affect sites that leave $CFG->smtphosts empty. |
| Issue summary: | Address the vulnerabilities in recent PHPMailer 5.2.x |
| Severity/Risk: | Serious |
| Versions affected: | 3.2, 3.1 to 3.1.3, 3.0 to 3.0.7, 2.9 to 2.9.9, 2.8 to 2.8.12, 2.7 to 2.7.17 and earlier unsupported versions |
| Versions fixed: | 3.2.1, 3.1.4, 3.0.8 and 2.7.18 |
| Reported by: | Matteo Scaramuccia |
| Issue no.: | MDL-57531 |
| Workaround: | Define $CFG->noreplyaddress and $CFG->supportemail in config.php |
| CVE identifier: | CVE-2016-10045 (PHPMailer) |
| Changes (master): | http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-57531 |