Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-10945
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
osv:CVE-2019-10945
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:01.196085563Z",
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"references": [
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