CVE-2013-3242

medium

Published 2013-05-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

plugins/system/remember/remember.php in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.10 and 3.0.x before 3.0.4 does not properly handle an object obtained by unserializing a cookie, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct PHP object injection attacks and cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
joomla	joomla\!	`3.0.0`
joomla	joomla\!	`3.0.1`
joomla	joomla\!	`3.0.2`
joomla	joomla\!	`3.0.3`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.0`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.1`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.2`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.3`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.4`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.5`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.6`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.7`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.8`
joomla	joomla\!	`2.5.9`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.