Joomla! < 3.8.13 ACL Violation Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:joomla:joomla";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.141580");
  script_version("2023-07-20T05:05:17+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-20 05:05:17 +0000 (Thu, 20 Jul 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-10-10 14:22:42 +0700 (Wed, 10 Oct 2018)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-24 17:37:00 +0000 (Mon, 24 Aug 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-17855");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_name("Joomla! < 3.8.13 ACL Violation Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("joomla_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("joomla/installed");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve
admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.8.12.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.8.13 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verification");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE)) exit(0);
version = infos['version'];
path = infos['location'];

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "1.5.0", test_version2: "3.8.12")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "3.8.13", install_path: path);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);