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CVE-2017-5215

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Codextrous B2J Contact (aka b2j_contact) extension before 2.1.13 for Joomla! allows a rename attack that bypasses a "safe file extension" protection mechanism, leading to remote code execution.

Affected products

• Codextrous B2J Contact: through 2.1.12

References

• https://navixia.com/storage/app/media/uploaded-files/CVE/cve-2017-521415.txt
• https://navixia.com/storage/app/media/uploaded-files/CVE/cve-2017-521415.txt

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