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CVE-2009-3945

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Front-End Editor in the com_content component in Joomla! before 1.5.15 allows remote authenticated users, with Author privileges, to replace the articles of an arbitrary user via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Joomla!: through 1.5.14; 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5 (+8)

References

• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/305-20091103-core-front-end-editor-issue-.html
• http://osvdb.org/59801
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37262
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54161
• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/305-20091103-core-front-end-editor-issue-.html
• http://osvdb.org/59801
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37262
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54161

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