CVE-2017-14596: Joomla!

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Joomla! before 3.8.0, inadequate escaping in the LDAP authentication plugin can result in a disclosure of a username and password.

Affected products

• Joomla! Joomla!: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.4 only; version 1.5.5 only; …

Published 2017-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.