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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2015-7857

SQL injection vulnerability in the getListQuery function in administrator/components/com_contenthistory/models/history.php in Joomla!

EXPLOIT ✓HIGH 7.5EPSS 94.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 94.5%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the getListQuery function in administrator/components/com_contenthistory/models/history.php in Joomla! 3.2 before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the list[select] parameter to index.php.

CVSS 2.0
7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
94.47% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 23 November 2015
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Affected
joomla/joomla\!
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%48%95%4 November 2026: 94.47%4 November 20264 November 2026

EPSS 94.5% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-38797source ↗Joomla! 3.4.4 Component Content History - SQL Injection / Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)php · Metasploitremote23 November 2015yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.