An issue was discovered in the Harmis JE Messenger component 1.2.2 for Joomla!. Input does not get validated and queries are not written in…

published 2019-03-29 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-19273

cvss: 8.5; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered in the Harmis JE Messenger component 1.2.2 for Joomla!. Input does not get validated and queries are not written in a way to prevent SQL injection. Therefore arbitrary SQL-Statements can be executed in the database.

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Exploit prediction

1.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	8.5	CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:L/PR:L/S:C/UI:N
NVD	3.1	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CNA	3.0	8.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	6.4	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

References

extensions.joomla.org /extension/je-messenger/
product, third-party-advisory
github.com /azd-cert/CVE/blob/master/CVEs/CVE-2019-9918.md
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-9918
NVD CVE-2019-9918

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