CVE record · CVE-2026-35223

Joomla! Core - [20260508] - Improper access check in com_config webservice endpoints

CVSS 8.6 HighCriticalEPSS 0.13 · 96th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 8.6 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.13 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Joomla) at 26 May 2026, 16:43 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS
  • affected 4.0.0-5.4.5
  • affected 6.0.0-6.1.0
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-35223
CNA
Joomla
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-284
Published
26 May 2026
Updated
27 May 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.6 High 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (Joomla)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.13, the 96th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 May 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.