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  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Impact: Moderate
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.7.0 through 3.8.3
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2018-January-20
  • Fixed Date: 2018-January-30
  • CVE Number: CVE-2018-6377

Description

Inadequate input filtering in com_fields leads to a XSS vulnerability in multiple field types, i.e. list, radio and checkbox.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.7.0 through 3.8.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.4

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Benjamin Trenkle, JSST

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Impact: Moderate
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.0.0 through 3.8.3
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2018-January-21
  • Fixed Date: 2018-January-30
  • CVE Number: CVE-2018-6380

Description

Lack of escaping in the module chromes leads to XSS vulnerabilities in the module system.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.0.0 through 3.8.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.4

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: David Jardin, JSST

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.7.0 through 3.8.1
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2017-May-17
  • Fixed Date: 2017-November-07
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-16633

Description

A logic bug in com_fields exposed read-only information about a site's custom fields to unauthorized users.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.7.0 through 3.8.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.2

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Internal JSST audit

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Medium
  • Versions: 3.2.0 through 3.8.1
  • Exploit type: 
  • Reported Date: 2017-October-31
  • Fixed Date: 2017-November-07
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-16634

Description

A bug allowed third parties to bypass a user's 2-factor-authentication method.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.2.0 through 3.8.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.2

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Yarince

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Medium
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.8.1
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2017-October-06
  • Fixed Date: 2017-November-07
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-14596

Description

Inadequate escaping in the LDAP authentication plugin can result in disclosure of username and password.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.8.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.2

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Dr. Johannes Dahse, RIPS Technologies GmbH

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.7.0 through 3.7.5
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2017-August-4
  • Fixed Date: 2017-September-19
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-14595

Description

A logic bug in a SQL query could lead to the disclosure of article intro texts when these articles are in the archived state.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.7.0 through 3.7.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Michal Prochaczek

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Medium
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.7.5
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2017-July-27
  • Fixed Date: 2017-September-19
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-14596

Description

Inadequate escaping in the LDAP authentication plugin can result into a disclosure of username and password.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.7.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Dr. Johannes Dahse, RIPS Technologies GmbH

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS Installer
  • Severity: High
  • Versions: 1.0.0 through 3.7.3
  • Exploit type: Lack of Ownership Verification
  • Reported Date: 2017-Apr-06
  • Fixed Date: 2017-July-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-11364

Description

The CMS installer application lacked a process to verify the users ownership of a webspace, potentially allowing users to gain control.

Please note: Already installed sites are not affected, as this issue is limited to the installer application!

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.0.0 through 3.7.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.4

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Hanno Böck

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.7.3
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2017-April-26
  • Fixed Date: 2017-July-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-11612

Description

Inadequate filtering of potentially malicious HTML tags leads to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.7.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.4

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Beat B, JSST

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: High
  • Versions: 1.7.3 - 3.7.2
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2016-Feb-05
  • Fixed Date: 2017-July-04
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-9933

Description

Improper cache invalidation leads to disclosure of form contents.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.7.3-3.7.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.3

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Jeff Channell

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: High
  • Versions: 1.7.3 - 3.7.2
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2017-June-04
  • Fixed Date: 2017-July-04
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-9934

Description

Missing CSRF token checks and improper input validation lead to an XSS vulnerability.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.7.3-3.7.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.3

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Envo

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.7.2
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2017-June-22
  • Fixed Date: 2017-July-04
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7985

Description

Inadequate filtering of multibyte characters leads to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.3

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: High
  • Versions: 3.7.0
  • Exploit type: SQL Injection
  • Reported Date: 2017-May-11
  • Fixed Date: 2017-May-17
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-8917

Description

Inadequate filtering of request data leads to a SQL Injection vulnerability.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.7.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.1

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Marc-Alexandre Montpas / sucuri.net

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.4.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2016-Feb-06
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-8057

Description

Multiple files caused full path disclosures on systems with enabled error reporting.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.4.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Sim of tencent security

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.2.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: ACL Violation
  • Reported Date: 2017-March-01
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7989

Description

Inadequate mime type checks allowed low-privilege users to upload swf files even if they were explicitly forbidden.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.2.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Abdullah Hussam

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.6.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: ACL Violation
  • Reported Date: 2016-April-29
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7988

Description

Inadequate filtering of form contents lead allow to overwrite the author of an article.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.6.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: T-Systems Multimedia Solutions

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.2.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2016-February-28
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7987

Description

Inadequate escaping of file and folder names leads to XSS vulnerabilities in the template manager component.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.2.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: David Jardin

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2017-February-22
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7986

Description

Inadequate filtering of specific HTML attributes leads to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2017-March-21
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7985

Description

Inadequate filtering of multibyte characters leads to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.2.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2016-December-23
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7984

Description

Inadequate filtering leads to XSS in the template manager component.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.2.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Chen Ruiqi, Codesafe team

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2017-Jan-02
  • Fixed Date: 2017-April-25
  • CVE Number: CVE-2017-7983

Description

Mail sent using the JMail API leaked the used PHPMailer version in the mail headers.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Conor McKnight

  • Project: Joomla!
  • Severity: High
  • Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.6.5
  • Exploit type: Remote Code Execution in third-party PHPMailer library
  • CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-10033 and CVE-2016-10045
Note: This advisory was revised to reflect the addition of CVE-2016-10045 and the PHPMailer 5.2.20 release

Description

All versions of the third-party PHPMailer library distributed with Joomla! versions up to 3.6.5 are vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability. This is patched in PHPMailer 5.2.20 which will be included with Joomla! 3.7. After analysis, the JSST has determined that through correct use of the JMail class, there are additional validations in place which make executing this vulnerability impractical within the Joomla environment. As well, the vulnerability requires being able to pass user input to a message's "from" address; all places in the core Joomla API which send mail use the sender address set in the global configuration and does not allow for user input to be set elsewhere. However, extensions which bundle a separate version of PHPMailer or do not use the Joomla API to send email may be vulnerable to this issue.

Generally, the Joomla project does not issue advisories regarding third party libraries, however given the severity of this issue we felt it important to advise our users that we are aware of this issue and we have determined that the additional validations in our API prevent triggering this vulnerability.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Solution

No action required for Joomla users, the updated library will be included in the next scheduled release and additional mechanisms exist in Joomla core to prevent triggering the vulnerability. Users of the PHPMailer library separate from Joomla are advised to upgrade to 5.2.20 or newer ASAP.

Additional Resources

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Dawid Golunski

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS

Description

Joomla! 3.6.5 includes additional security hardening mechanisms prepared by the JSST, thanks in part to issue reports from Fotis Evangelou and Nicholas Dionysopoulos, which restricts a user's ability to make potentially damaging configuration changes. This includes restricting the ability to set the "New User Registration Group" and "Guest User Group" to a group with Super User permissions and restricting the ability for a lesser privileged user to make user group assignment changes to users in a Super User group.

Additionally, we have modified the behavior of JUser::authorise() to only return a boolean value. Previously, this method could return either a boolean value or null because the underlying call to JAccess::check() can also return a null value; neither JUser::authorise() or JAccess::check() documented this though. We have determined that based on how the API is used that JUser::authorise() should only return a boolean value. If a developer requires the previous behavior of a null return value (which indicates an "implicit" denied state versus "explicit" signified by boolean false), they should use JAccess::check() instead. The documentation for JAccess::check() has been updated to indicate the null return value as well.

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.0.0 through 3.6.4
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2016-April-15
  • Fixed Date: 2016-December-06
  • CVE Number: CVE-2016-9837

Description

Inadequate ACL checks in the Beez3 com_content article layout override enables a user to view restricted content.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.6.5

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Christiaan Klatte and Brian Teeman

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.0.0 through 3.6.4
  • Exploit type: Shell Upload
  • Reported Date: 2016-October-26
  • Fixed Date: 2016-December-06
  • CVE Number: CVE-2016-9836

Description

Inadequate filesystem checks allowed files with alternative PHP file extensions to be uploaded.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.6.5

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Xiphos Research Ltd.

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