Insufficient Session Expiration in Joomla! - CVE-2021-26037
Published: July 7, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU54577
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-26037
CWE-ID: CWE-613
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue when changing user's password or blocking the user accont. A remote non-authenticated attacker can obtain or guess session token and gain unauthorized access to session that belongs to another user.
Affected software
Joomla!
How to mitigate CVE-2021-26037
Install updates from vendor's website.
Joomla! - update to 3.9.28