CVE-2017-7988 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Joomla! versions 1.6.0 through 3.6.5, allowing an attacker to overwrite the author of an article due to inadequate form content filtering. With a CVSS score of 5.3, it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction, resulting in a low impact on integrity. Despite its potential, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. The vulnerability was patched in Joomla! 3.7.0.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!:1.5.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!:1.5.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!:1.5.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!:1.5.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!:1.5.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.