CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-5576

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-10-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-10-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

administrator/components/com_media/helpers/media.php in the media manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.1.5 allows remote authenticated users or remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload files with dangerous extensions via a filename with a trailing . (dot), as exploited in the wild in August 2013.

Affected configurations

• joomla joomla\! 2.5.0 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.1 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.2 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.3 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.4 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.5 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.6 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.7 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.8 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.9 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.10 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.11 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.12 • joomla joomla\! 2.5.13 • joomla joomla\! 3.0.0 • joomla joomla\! 3.0.1 • joomla joomla\! 3.0.2 • joomla joomla\! 3.0.3 • joomla joomla\! 3.0.4 • joomla joomla\! 3.1.0 • joomla joomla\! 3.1.1 • joomla joomla\! 3.1.2 • joomla joomla\! 3.1.3 • joomla joomla\! 3.1.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References