PT-2017-18050 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Published 2017-04-25 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-7988

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions 1.6.0 through 3.6.5

Description The issue arises from inadequate filtering of form contents, which allows the author of an article to be overwritten.

Recommendations For versions 1.6.0 through 3.6.5, update to version 3.7.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7988

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 5

• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/688-20170406-core-acl-violations · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7988 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7988 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98022 · Note