CVE-2018-17855

—

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

EPSS

2%p78

Published

Oct 9, 2018 (Oct 9, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.

Vendors: joomla
Products: joomla\!
Ecosystems: Joomla
Weakness: CWE-269
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.9%)

In the news0 stories

No ingested article mentions this CVE yet.