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Joomla! 4.0.0 Access Control Vulnerability

🗓️ 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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Joomla! 4.0.0 Access Control Vulnerability in com_media deletion endpoin

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

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

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.146550");
  script_version("2026-04-30T06:27:06+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-30 06:27:06 +0000 (Thu, 30 Apr 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-08-25 06:51:48 +0000 (Wed, 25 Aug 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.4");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-08-31 02:11:00 +0000 (Tue, 31 Aug 2021)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-26040");

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

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

  script_name("Joomla! 4.0.0 Access Control Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("joomla_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("joomla/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Joomla! is prone to an access control vulnerability in the
  com_media deletion endpoint.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The media manager does not correctly check the user's
  permissions before executing a file deletion command.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Joomla! version 4.0.0.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.0.1 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/861-20210801-core-insufficient-access-control-for-com-media-deletion-endpoint");

  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"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_is_equal(version: version, test_version: "4.0.0")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.0.1", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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30 Apr 2026 00:00Current
8.4High risk
Vulners AI Score8.4
CVSS 26.4
CVSS 3.19.1
EPSS0.00936
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