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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-04-03 14:15

Modified

2025-10-22 09:08

Summary

[20230201] - Core - Improper access check in webservice endpoints

Details

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.0.0 through 4.2.7. An improper access check allows unauthorized access to webservice endpoints.

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            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.2.8"
            }
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        }
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  "modified": "2025-10-22T09:08:25.162Z",
  "published": "2025-04-03T14:15:54.999Z",
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    },
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}

CVE-2023-23752 (GCVE-0-2023-23752)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-16 16:25 – Updated: 2025-10-22 04:35

Title

[20230201] - Core - Improper access check in webservice endpoints

Summary

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.0.0 through 4.2.7. An improper access check allows unauthorized access to webservice endpoints.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

Assigner

Joomla

References

URL

Tags

https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/894-…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Joomla! Project	Joomla! CMS	Affected: 4.0.0-4.2.7

Credits

Zewei Zhang from NSFOCUS TIANJI Lab

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2023-23752 (GCVE-0-2023-23752)

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