Title: critical vulnerability
Last modified: January 2, 2017

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# critical vulnerability

 *  [ppeter18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppeter18/)
 * (@ppeter18)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-vulnerability-2/)
 * Hi!
    LegalHackers describe a critical vulnerability on PHPMailer < 5.2.18 Remote
   Code Execution: [https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html](https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html)
   So would ask you kindly if contact form 7 has fixed this problem? Thank you and
   best regards! Peter

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 *  [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-vulnerability-2/#post-8616658)
 * There’s already an open topic about this: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpmailer-cve-2016-10033/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpmailer-cve-2016-10033/)

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 * Last reply from: [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-vulnerability-2/#post-8616658)
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