CVE-2013-5576: Joomla!

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 48.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

administrator/components/com_media/helpers/media.php in the media manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.1.5 allows remote authenticated users or remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload files with dangerous extensions via a filename with a trailing . (dot), as exploited in the wild in August 2013.

Affected products

• Joomla! Joomla!: version 2.5.0 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only; version 2.5.3 only; version 2.5.4 only; version 2.5.5 only; …

Published 2013-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.