Intrusion PreventionJoomla!.Core.Account.Creation.Privilege.Escalation
Description
This indicates an attack attempt to exploit a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Joomla User component.
The vulnerability is due to the application's failure to properly sanitize user input before using it in an account creation. As a result, a remote attacker can send a crafted query to create a user with elevated permission.
Affected Products
Joomla! CMS versions 3.4.4 through 3.6.3
Impact
Privilege Escalation: Remote attackers can create any account with elevated permission on affected machines
Recommended Actions
Upgrade to version 3.6.4 or higher available from the website
https://www.joomla.org/download.html
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
Version Updates
| Date | Version | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-29 | 18.047 | Sig Added |
| 2019-02-01 | 14.540 | Name:Joomla. Core. Account. Creation. Privilege. Escalation:Joomla!. Core. Account. Creation. Privilege. Escalation |
| ID | 43344 |
| Created | Oct 28, 2016 |
| Updated | Apr 17, 2023 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2016-8870 CVE-2016-8869 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 92.93% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | All |
| Affected App | PHP_app |