CVE-2012-2902

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in editor/extensions/browser/file.php in the Joomla Content Editor (JCE) component before 2.1 for Joomla!, when chunking is set to greater than zero, allows remote authors to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a PHP file with a double extension as demonstrated by .jpg.pht.

Affected products

Ryan Demmer Joomla Content Editor: through 2.0.21; 2.0

References

http://osvdb.org/81980
http://secunia.com/advisories/49206
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-15/
http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/news/item/jce-21-released?category_id=32
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51002
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75671
http://osvdb.org/81980
http://secunia.com/advisories/49206
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-15/
http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/news/item/jce-21-released?category_id=32
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51002
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75671

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