Joomla CMS up to 4.4.13/5.3.3 information exposure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Joomla CMS up to 4.4.13/5.3.3. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to information exposure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-54477. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Joomla CMS up to 4.4.13/5.3.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information exposure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-203. The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Improper handling of authentication requests lead to a user enumeration vector in the passkey authentication method.

The weakness was released by Marco Schubert. The advisory is available at developer.joomla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-54477 since 07/23/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is 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 10/02/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 266292 (Joomla 4.0.x < 4.4.14 / 5.0.x < 5.3.4 Joomla 5.3.4 Security & Bugfix Release (5936-joomla-5-3-4-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 databases at Tenable (266292) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-31747). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.7

VulDB Base Score: 3.7
VulDB Temp Score: 3.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information exposure
CWE: CWE-203 / CWE-200 / CWE-284
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 266292
Nessus Name: Joomla 4.0.x < 4.4.14 / 5.0.x < 5.3.4 Joomla 5.3.4 Security & Bugfix Release (5936-joomla-5-3-4-security-bugfix-release)

Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

07/23/2025 CVE reserved
09/30/2025 +69 days Advisory disclosed
09/30/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/02/2025 +2 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: joomla.org

Advisory: developer.joomla.org
Researcher: Marco Schubert
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-54477 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-54477
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-326426
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/30/2025 18:29
Updated: 10/02/2025 13:11
Changes: 09/30/2025 18:29 (54), 09/30/2025 19:21 (1), 10/02/2025 13:11 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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