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medium 5.5

CVE-2013-3242 json

plugins/system/remember/remember.php in Joomla!

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-3179

cvss
5.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

plugins/system/remember/remember.php in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.10 and 3.0.x before 3.0.4 does not properly handle an object obtained by unserializing a cookie, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct PHP object injection attacks and cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-25087)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-25087 Joomla! 3.0.3 - 'remember.php' PHP Object Injection webapps, 2013-04-26
  • karmainsecurity.com http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2013-04 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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