CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12712
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. The autoload code checks classnames to be valid, using the "class_exists" function in PHP. In PHP 5.3, this function validates invalid names as valid, which can result in a Local File Inclusion.
Affected configurations
• joomla joomla\! (>= 2.5.0 <= 3.8.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104566 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041245 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/741-20180601-core-local-file-inclusion-with-php-5-3 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104566 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041245 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/741-20180601-core-local-file-inclusion-with-php-5-3 Vendor Advisory