Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure logged-in Joomla user to attacker page
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ExploitBrowser auto-submits forged cart request
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ExecutionExtension processes action without CSRF token
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ImpactVictim's shopping cart tampered
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a victim who is actively authenticated to a Joomla site running the Event Gallery extension (svenbluege.de) at a version below 6.5.0, and who visits attacker-controlled web content while that session is valid. The affected code path is the extension's shopping-cart actions, which lack anti-CSRF token validation. Limiting factors: the attack only succeeds against an already-logged-in user (user interaction / an active session is effectively required despite the vendor's UI:N rating), impact is confined to cart-state manipulation (integrity-low, no data theft or service disruption), and only sites with this specific extension installed are exposed. |
| Impact | This is a high-CVSS-but-modest-real-risk issue. The vendor-supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) scores 6.9, but the metric choices are inconsistent with the CWE-352 (CSRF) nature of the flaw: a CSRF attack inherently requires a logged-in victim to be tricked into submitting a forged request, which is user interaction - so UI:N is generous and the true UI should be Required. The impact is also narrow: VC:N/VI:L/VA:N means confidentiality and availability are untouched and integrity is only low (limited to shopping-cart state changes such as adding/modifying/removing items). There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept in the provided data, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' Combined with a niche affected product (a single Joomla extension), the practical priority is LOW despite the medium-band CVSS number. Note the conflict: the CVSS vector implies a fully unauthenticated, no-interaction attack, but the CSRF class implies an authenticated victim and a click - verify with the vendor. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious page or emails a crafted link/auto-submitting form to a user who is currently logged into a Joomla site running the Event Gallery extension. When the victim's browser loads the attacker content, it silently issues forged cart-action requests (add/modify/remove items) under the victim's session. No public exploit code is identified in the available data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 27, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in the Event Gallery extension for Joomla (svenbluege.de) affects versions below 6.5.0 and lets an attacker craft a malicious web page that silently performs shopping-cart actions on behalf of a logged-in site user, because those cart endpoints do not validate an anti-CSRF token. Exploitation requires the victim to be authenticated to a Joomla site running the vulnerable extension and to visit attacker-controlled content while that session is active; impact is limited to integrity (manipulation of cart state) with no confidentiality or availability loss, consistent with the assessed vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/C:N/I:L/A:N) rather than a worst-case reading of the vendor's 6.9 base score. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been reported, and the vendor has released version 6.5.0 as the fixed release.
RemediationAI
The primary fix is to upgrade the Event Gallery extension for Joomla to version 6.5.0 or later, which resolves the missing CSRF token validation in the cart actions; this is the vendor-released patched version implied by the '< 6.5.0' affected range, and administrators should confirm availability through https://www.svenbluege.de/ before deploying. If immediate upgrade is not possible, compensating controls should focus on removing the attack prerequisite: disable or unpublish the extension's cart functionality for the interim so the vulnerable action endpoints cannot be reached, at the cost of losing e-commerce/cart features on the gallery; alternatively, restrict who can hold active authenticated sessions on the site (log out of Joomla sessions when not in use) and rely on browser-side protections such as strict same-site cookie configuration, which reduces but does not eliminate the CSRF exposure. Note that any disabling of cart features is a functional trade-off and should be reverted once 6.5.0 is installed.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) is the root-cause class here. Joomla extensions are web components that run inside an authenticated browser session; when an extension performs state-changing operations (such as shopping-cart add/update/remove actions in Event Gallery) without requiring a per-request token derived from the user's session, a third-party site can force the victim's browser to issue those requests using the victim's existing cookies. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:svenbluege.de:event_gallery_for_joomla identifies the vendor/product namespace for the svenbluege.de Event Gallery component, and the wildcard version field indicates all releases prior to the 6.5.0 fix are in scope. Because no authentication bypass is involved, the attacker does not need credentials of their own; the weakness is entirely in the absence of CSRF token validation on the cart action endpoints, which makes the victim's ambient session the authorization vehicle for attacker-chosen requests.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CSRF requires a forged request executed via a logged-in victim's browser, so UI:R and PR:N (attacker needs no account); impact limited to cart-state tampering, hence I:L and C/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (Joomla).
CVSS VectorVendor: Joomla
DescriptionCVE.org
Joomla Extension - svenbluege.de - CSRF in various cart actions in Event Gallery extension < 6.5.0
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
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