Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. The web install application would autofill password fields after either a form validation error or navigating to a previous install step, and display the plaintext password for the administrator account at the confirmation screen.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11325
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. The web install application would autofill password fields after either a form validation error or navigating to a previous install step, and display the plaintext password for the administrator account at the confirmation screen.
osv:CVE-2018-11325
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:16.904096424Z",
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"references": [
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