{"id":"CVE-2017-7628","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-7628","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:47:01.374Z","title":"The \"Smart related articles\" extension 1.1 for Joomla! has SQL injection in dialog.php (attacker must use search_cats variable in POST method to exploit this vulnerability).","description":"The \"Smart related articles\" extension 1.1 for Joomla! has SQL injection in dialog.php (attacker must use search_cats variable in POST method to exploit this vulnerability).","published":"2017-04-13T03:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:24:50.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-89"],"affected":["smart related articles project/smart related articles"],"epss":{"score":0.01235,"percentile":0.68903,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.23%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/smart-related-articles/","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/anonymous/14576258b0e66bb25ca4b7ca1638e51f","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://vel.joomla.org/live-vel/1952-smart-related-articles-1-1-sql-injection","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/smart-related-articles/","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/anonymous/14576258b0e66bb25ca4b7ca1638e51f","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://vel.joomla.org/live-vel/1952-smart-related-articles-1-1-sql-injection","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7628","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}