Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.24. Extracting an specifilcy crafted zip package could write files outside of the intended path.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-26028
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.24. Extracting an specifilcy crafted zip package could write files outside of the intended path.
osv:CVE-2021-26028
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26028",
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"severity": "medium",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.296516205Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/848-20210308-core-path-traversal-within-joomla-archive-zip-class.html"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-03-04T18:15:13.91+00:00"
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