Joomla CMS up to 4.4.11/5.2.4 Media Manager unrestricted upload

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Joomla CMS up to 4.4.11/5.2.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Media Manager. The manipulation results in unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-22213. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Joomla CMS up to 4.4.11/5.2.4. Affected is some unknown functionality of the component Media Manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Inadequate checks in the Media Manager allowed users with "edit" privileges to change file extension to arbitrary extension, including .php and other potentially executable extensions.

The weakness was disclosed by ErPaciocco. The advisory is available at developer.joomla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-22213 since 01/01/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/12/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1608.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232605 (Joomla 4.0.x < 4.4.12 / 5.0.x < 5.2.5 Joomla 5.2.5 Security & Bugfix Release (5922-joomla-5-2-5-security-bugfix-release)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232605). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.7

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Class: Unrestricted upload
CWE: CWE-434 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 232605
Nessus Name: Joomla 4.0.x < 4.4.12 / 5.0.x < 5.2.5 Joomla 5.2.5 Security & Bugfix Release (5922-joomla-5-2-5-security-bugfix-release)

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01/01/2025 🔍
03/11/2025 +69 days 🔍
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03/12/2025 +1 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: joomla.org

Advisory: developer.joomla.org
Researcher: ErPaciocco
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-22213 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-22213
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-299322

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2025 17:46
Updated: 03/12/2025 02:08
Changes: 03/11/2025 17:46 (68), 03/12/2025 02:08 (2)
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Committer: mitr
Cache ID: 216::103

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