Joomla CMS up to 3.9.6 com_actionslogs injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Joomla CMS up to 3.9.6. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component com_actionslogs. Such manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-12765. The attack may be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Joomla CMS up to 3.9.6 (Content Management System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component com_actionslogs. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.7. The CSV export of com_actionslogs is vulnerable to CSV injection.

The weakness was shared 06/11/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-12765 since 06/07/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1055 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 3.9.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (48198). The entries VDB-136395 and VDB-136393 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.2

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.6
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NVD Base Score: 9.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Injection
CWE: CWE-74 / CWE-707 / CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: CMS 3.9.7

Timelineinfo

06/07/2019 🔍
06/11/2019 +4 days 🔍
06/12/2019 +1 days 🔍
08/25/2025 +2265 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: joomla.org

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-12765 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-12765
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-136394
SecurityFocus: 108736

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/12/2019 11:15
Updated: 08/25/2025 01:54
Changes: 06/12/2019 11:15 (57), 06/22/2020 18:53 (1), 10/03/2023 16:52 (4), 08/25/2025 01:54 (24)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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