VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-5134

medium
Published 2012-08-30 · 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
6.0

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in editor/extensions/browser/file.php in the JCE component before 2.0.18 for Joomla! allows remote authenticated users with the author privileges to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a double extension, as demonstrated by .php.gif. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce{"endIncluding":"2.0.17"}
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.0
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.1
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.2
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.3
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.4
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.5
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.6
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.7
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.8
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.9
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.10
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.11
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.12
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.13
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.14
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.15
widgetfactorylimitedcom_jce2.0.16
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References

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

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