Joomla Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2013-5576 - Vulnerability Database

Joomla Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2013-5576

Medium
Reference: CVE-2013-5576
Title: Joomla Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Overview:

administrator/components/com_media/helpers/media.php in the media manager in Joomla 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.1.5 allows remote authenticated users or remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload files with dangerous extensions via a filename with a trailing . (dot) as exploited in the wild in August 2013.