CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-17856

7.2 HIGH Published 2018-10-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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

Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. com_joomlaupdate allows the execution of arbitrary code. The default ACL config enabled the ability of Administrator-level users to access com_joomlaupdate and trigger code execution.

Affected configurations

• joomla joomla\! (>= 2.5.4 < 3.8.13)

References