CVE-2017-7988

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7988
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7988.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7988
Published
2017-04-25T18:59:00.400Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:01:06.826208Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.6.5 (fixed in 3.7.0), inadequate filtering of form contents allows overwriting the author of an article.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Affected ranges

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Repo
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms
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Database specific
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Affected versions

1.*
1.7.3
2.*
2.5.0
2.5.0_beta1
2.5.0_beta2
2.5.1
2.5.10
2.5.11
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2.5.3
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3.0.0
3.0.0_alpha-1
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3.0.0_beta1
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.1.0
3.1.0_beta1
3.1.0_beta2
3.1.0_beta3
3.1.0_beta4
3.1.0_beta5
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3.1.2
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Database specific

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