CVE-2012-2902: Ryan Demmer Joomla Content Editor

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in editor/extensions/browser/file.php in the Joomla Content Editor (JCE) component before 2.1 for Joomla!, when chunking is set to greater than zero, allows remote authors to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a PHP file with a double extension as demonstrated by .jpg.pht.

Affected products

• Ryan Demmer Joomla Content Editor: up to and including 2.0.21; version 2.0 only

Published 2012-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.