An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.2.0 through 4.3.1. The lack of rate limiting allowed brute force attacks against MFA methods.

According to its self-reported version, the instance of Joomla! running on the remote web server is 4.2.x prior to 4.3.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

 - An open redirect and a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) within the mfa selection. (CVE-2023-23754)

 - A lack of rate limiting allowing brute force attacks against MFA methods. (CVE-2023-23755)

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to its self-reported version, the instance of Joomla! running on the remote web server is 4.2.x prior to 4.3.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  - An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.2.0 through 4.3.1. Lack of input validation caused an open redirect     and XSS issue within the new mfa selection screen. (CVE-2023-23754)

  - An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.2.0 through 4.3.1. The lack of rate limiting allowed brute force     attacks against MFA methods. (CVE-2023-23755)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
113950	Joomla! 4.2.x < 4.3.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
176486	Joomla 4.2.x < 4.3.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (5887-joomla-4-3-2-security-and-bug-fix-release)	Nessus	CGI abuses	high

Detections

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CVE-2023-23755

high

Tenable Plugins

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high