CVE-2023-23755 (GCVE-0-2023-23755)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-30 16:12
Modified
2025-01-10 04:33
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Lack of rate limiting
Summary
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.2.0 through 4.3.1. The lack of rate limiting allowed brute force attacks against MFA methods.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS Version: 4.2.0-4.3.1
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