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CVE-2008-3228

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3228 describes a security misconfiguration in Joomla! versions prior to 1.5.4, where the .htaccess file fails to apply crucial security checks to Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs. This oversight could lead to unknown remote attack vectors and impact, potentially allowing for information disclosure, unauthorized modification, or denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0116 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: joomla/joomla-platformFixed in: 1.5.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-mxr8-pcpg-m23jmedium

Joomla! doesn't configure .htaccess to apply certain security checks that "block common exploits" to SEF URLs

May 1, 2022

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44206
joomla.org / content/view/5180/1
joomla.org / content/view/5180/1/1/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/07/12/2