CVE-2018-11323 (GCVE-0-2018-11323)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-22 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:01
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Inadequate checks allowed users to modify the access levels of user groups with higher permissions.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-05-22 00:00
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