CVE-2013-3242

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-05-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

plugins/system/remember/remember.php in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.10 and 3.0.x before 3.0.4 does not properly handle an object obtained by unserializing a cookie, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct PHP object injection attacks and cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Joomla!: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 2.5.0, 2.5.1 (+8)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-04/0232.html
http://developer.joomla.org/security/85-20130406-core-dos-vulnerability.html
http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2013-04
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25087
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-04/0232.html
http://developer.joomla.org/security/85-20130406-core-dos-vulnerability.html
http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2013-04
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25087

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