CVE-2019-10945
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly...
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
- Record
CVE-2019-10945- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-22
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
- Record
CVE-2019-10945- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-2659 No score
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
- Record
EUVD-2019-2659- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-fg75-qw6g-52mj
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly...
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
- Record
GHSA-fg75-qw6g-52mj- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-22
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.
- Record
CVE-2019-10945- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB | Joomla! Core 1.5.0 - 3.9.4 - Directory Traversal / Authenticated Arbitrary File Deletion | 2019-04-16 |
| PoC in GitHub | Snizi/CVE-2019-10945 | 2025-09-02 |
| PoC in GitHub | dpgg101/CVE-2019-10945 | 2023-02-24 |
| PoC in GitHub | tayW84/CVE-2019-10945----Python3 | 2026-03-19 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, Exploit-DB, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-10945 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Joomla Joomla\!, published April 10, 2019. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 40.3%, the 98th percentile. No source names a fixed version.