VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2890

medium
Published 2011-07-27 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The MediaViewMedia class in administrator/components/com_media/views/media/view.html.php in Joomla! 1.5.23 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving the base variable, leading to disclosure of the installation path, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2488.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
joomla joomlajoomla\!{"endIncluding":"1.5.23"}
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.0
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.1
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.2
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.3
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.4
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.5
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.6
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.7
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.8
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.9
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.10
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.11
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.12
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.13
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.14
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.15
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.16
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.17
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.18
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.19
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.20
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.21
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.5.22

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.