Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-7739
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:50.275662264Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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