VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-16633

medium
Published 2017-11-10 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

In Joomla! before 3.8.2, a logic bug in com_fields exposed read-only information about a site's custom fields to unauthorized users.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
joomla joomlajoomla\!{"startIncluding":"3.7.0","endIncluding":"3.8.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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