CVE-2013-3242

Joomla! <2.5.10-3.0.4 - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2013-3242. PoCs published by EgiX.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a detailed writeup describing a PHP object injection vulnerability in Joomla! versions 3.0.3 and earlier, as well as 2.5.9 and earlier. The vulnerability arises from improper sanitization of user input passed through cookies, leading to arbitrary PHP object injection via unserialize().

Description

plugins/system/remember/remember.php in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.10 and 3.0.x before 3.0.4 does not properly handle an object obtained by unserializing a cookie, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct PHP object injection attacks and cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by EgiX · textwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25087

This is a detailed writeup describing a PHP object injection vulnerability in Joomla! versions 3.0.3 and earlier, as well as 2.5.9 and earlier. The vulnerability arises from improper sanitization of user input passed through cookies, leading to arbitrary PHP object injection via unserialize().

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Deserialization
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Joomla! <= 3.0.3, Joomla! <= 2.5.9
Auth required
Prerequisites: Authentication to obtain the 'hash string' used to read the cookie parameter
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25087
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2013-04
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-04/0232.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0485
EPSS Percentile 90.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (14)
joomla/joomla\! 3.0.0
joomla/joomla\! 3.0.1
joomla/joomla\! 3.0.2
joomla/joomla\! 3.0.3
joomla/joomla\! 2.5.0
joomla/joomla\! 2.5.1
joomla/joomla\! 2.5.2
joomla/joomla\! 2.5.3
joomla/joomla\! 2.5.4
joomla/joomla\! 2.5.5
... and 4 more
Published May 03, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026