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SCA: security update for joomla/joomla-cms (GHSA-v84j-vh7x-g7j6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433889

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Joomla! 3.x before 3.9.12, inadequate escaping allowed XSS attacks using the logo parameter of the
 default templates. (CVE-2019-16725)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v84j-vh7x-g7j6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433889

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16725

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16725

cwe: CWE-79