QID 730167

Date Published: 2021-09-01

QID 730167: Joomla Incorrect Access Control Vulnerability (20210801)

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP. It uses object oriented programming techniques and is built on a model-view-controller web application framework. It includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

The media manager does not correctly check the user's permissions before executing a file deletion command.

Affected Version:
Joomla! CMS versions 4.0.0

Fixed Version:
Upgrade to version 4.0.1

QID Detection Logic(Unauthenticated):
QID checks for the Vulnerable version of Joomla.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to delete files from the targeted system.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.1 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.

Solution

The vendor has released a patch in Joomla to remediate this vulnerability.

Vendor References

20210801 - developer.joomla.org/security-centre.html

CVEs related to QID 730167

CVE-2021-26040 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
20210801			developer.joomla.org/security-centre.html

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