CVE-2017-7988: Joomla!

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.6.5 (fixed in 3.7.0), inadequate filtering of form contents allows overwriting the author of an article.

Affected products

• Joomla! Joomla!: version 1.5.16 only; version 1.5.17 only; version 1.5.18 only; version 1.5.19 only; version 1.5.20 only; version 1.5.21 only; …

Published 2017-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.