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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-7739

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.3. The "No Filtering" textfilter overrides child settings in the Global Configuration. This is intended behavior. However, it might be unexpected for the user because the configuration dialog lacks an additional message to explain this.

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CVE-2019-7739
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1 Nov 2026, 07:13 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-7739

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Feb 2019, 18:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.3. The "No Filtering" textfilter overrides child settings in the Global Configuration. This is intended behavior. However, it might be unexpected for the user because the configuration dialog lacks an additional message to explain this.

osv:CVE-2019-7739
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:50.275662264Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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