PHPmailer is a PHP class that provides a package of functions to send email. The component is widely used in PHP web applications including content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.
The component is affected by a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability if the "From" address is set from user input. (see [1] for additional information).
Airlock WAF does not protect by default. A custom Deny Rule can be created to prevent exploitation of the vulnerability.
We recommend to update vulnerable back-end systems and make sure that PHPMailer version 5.2.20 or above is used.
If you can not immediately update we recommend to configure the following custom Deny Rule / virtual patch on all affected mappings.
Name: PHPMailer vulnerability CVE-2016-10033
Pattern: \\".*\h-[DX]
Ignore Case: Off
Invert: Off