CVE-2006-1957: Joomla!

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The com_rss option (rss.php) in (1) Mambo and (2) Joomla! allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and possibly web-server outage) via multiple requests with different values of the feed parameter.

Affected products

• Joomla! Joomla!: any version
• Mambo-Foundation Mambo: affected versions not specified

Published 2006-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.