Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.7. The update server URL of com_joomlaupdate can be manipulated by non Super-Admin users.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12764
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.7. The update server URL of com_joomlaupdate can be manipulated by non Super-Admin users.
osv:CVE-2019-12764
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12764",
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"summary": "An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.7. The update server URL of com_joomlaupdate can be manipulated by non Super-Admin users.",
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"severity": "medium",
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}
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.616196039Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/785-20190603-core-acl-hardening-of-com-joomlaupdate"
],
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},
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 431398,
"published_at": "2019-06-11T19:29:00.653+00:00"
}