Joomla! vulnerable to CRLF injection

Also known as GHSA-h22q-g2c7-2jwj

Published 19 y ago 2007-08-08 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-16 · JSON

CVSS

4.3

v2.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.7%

percentile 77%

Public exploits

none known

CRLF injection vulnerability in Joomla! before 1.0.13 (aka Sunglow) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and probably conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in the url parameter. NOTE: this can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.67% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	2.0	4.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
packagist	`joomla/application`	<1.0.13	1.0.13

Classification

Weakness

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences

References

secunia.com /advisories/26239 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
osvdb.org /38739 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB, x_transferred
joomla.org /content/view/3677/1/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
vupen.com /english/advisories/2007/2719 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4190 · advisory
github.com /joomla/joomla-cms · package
web.archive.org /web/20071001212343/http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3677/1 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2007-4190
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-h22q-g2c7-2jwj
NVD: CVE-2007-4190

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