CVE-2008-4105

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

JRequest in Joomla! 1.5 before 1.5.7 does not sanitize variables that were set with JRequest::setVar, which allows remote attackers to conduct "variable injection" attacks and have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

Joomla! Joomla: 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5 (+1)

References

http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/271-20080901-core-jrequest-variable-injection.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122115344915232&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122118210029084&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152798516853&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31789
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4275
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020843
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45069
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/271-20080901-core-jrequest-variable-injection.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122115344915232&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122118210029084&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152798516853&w=2

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