Improper handling of authentication requests lead to a user enumeration vector in the passkey authentication method.

According to its self-reported version, the instance of Joomla! running on the remote web server is 4.x prior to 4.4.14 or 5.x prior to 5.3.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

 - Inadequate content filtering within the checkAttribute methods leads to XSS vulnerabilities in various components. (CVE-2025-54476)

 - Improper handling of authentication requests lead to a user enumeration vector in the passkey authentication method. (CVE-2025-54477)

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 4.0.x prior to 4.4.14 or 5.0.x prior to 5.3.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability.

  - Improper handling of authentication requests lead to a user enumeration vector in the passkey     authentication method. (CVE-2025-54477)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
114982	Joomla! 4.x < 4.4.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	medium
114981	Joomla! 5.x < 5.3.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	medium
266292	Joomla 4.0.x < 4.4.14 / 5.0.x < 5.3.4 Joomla 5.3.4 Security & Bugfix Release (5936-joomla-5-3-4-security-bugfix-release)	Nessus	CGI abuses	high

Detections

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CVE-2025-54477

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

high