CVE-2017-17871

critical

Published 2017-12-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.5

VIR risk

9.8

Description

The "JEXTN Question And Answer" extension 3.1.0 for Joomla! has SQL Injection via the an parameter in a view=tags action, or the ques-srch parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
jextn	jextn_question_and_answer	`3.1.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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