An issue was discovered in Joomla!

published 2020-07-15 6y ago modified 2026-09-08 2mo ago also BIT-joomla-2020-15697 , EUVD-2020-7684

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered in Joomla! through 3.9.19. Internal read-only fields in the User table class could be modified by users.

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Exploit prediction

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
bitnami	joomla	>=3.0.0, <=3.9.19	no fix listed

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

developer.joomla.org /security-centre/821-20200704-core-variable-tampering-via-user-table-class.html
vendor-advisory, advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15697
web

Sources

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