Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure authenticated user to attacker page
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ExploitBrowser auto-submits forged StageIt request
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ExecutionAction executes under victim session
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ImpactIntegrity/availability of extension data impacted
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 that the victim be an actively authenticated Joomla user/administrator on a site running the StageIt extension in an affected version (1.0 through 5.7.5, or 6.0 through 6.3.5), and that this victim be induced to interact with attacker-controlled content (UI:P) - e.g. visit a malicious page or click a crafted link - while their session is valid. The attacker needs no credentials of their own (PR:N) and no special target configuration is stated in the available sources; the specific state-changing actions that can be forged are described only as 'various actions' and are not individually enumerated in the input. The user-interaction requirement and the dependency on an authenticated victim session are the primary factors limiting exploitation. |
| Impact | This is a cross-site request forgery flaw (CWE-352) in the StageIt Joomla extension. The only severity signal provided is a CVSS 4.0 vector (7.2, AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H), which reflects a CSRF pattern precisely: network-reachable, low complexity, no attacker privileges, but requiring victim interaction (UI:P), with high integrity and availability impact and no confidentiality impact. No EPSS score, no KEV listing, and no PoC were supplied - the single reference is a vendor changelog page, not exploit code - so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_week', indicating moderate rather than emergency urgency, which is consistent with a CSRF bug that depends on tricking an authenticated user. Net assessment: a legitimately impactful flaw for sites running this extension (state-changing actions can be forced), but real-world risk is bounded by the user-interaction requirement and by the extension's limited deployment footprint; EPSS and exploitation data are missing, so exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the input. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious web page or email link and lures a logged-in Joomla administrator or user who has the StageIt extension active into visiting it; the page silently submits a forged request to the Joomla site, causing one of the extension's state-changing actions to execute under the victim's session. No public exploit code was provided, and success depends on the victim being authenticated and interacting with the attacker's content (UI:P). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Nov 02, 2026
The StageIt extension for Joomla (published by php-web-design.com) performs state-changing actions without adequate cross-site request forgery protection, so an attacker who can lure a logged-in Joomla user or administrator to a malicious page or crafted link can cause those actions to be executed with the victim's privileges. Versions 1.0 through 5.7.5 and 6.0 through 6.3.5 are affected, and the impact is rated high for both integrity and availability (CVSS 4.0 base 7.2; assessed CVSS 3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H), with no confidentiality impact. Exploitation requires an authenticated victim session and user interaction, the attacker needs no credentials, and no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation is identified in the available sources; priority is triaged as remediation this week.
RemediationAI
Upgrade the StageIt extension to a release outside the affected ranges - that is, above 5.7.5 on the 5.x line or above 6.3.5 on the 6.x line - and confirm the exact corrected version against the vendor changelog at https://www.php-web-design.com/Information/stageit-6-changelog.html, since the input does not state a specific fixed version number for either branch. Until the extension is updated, the practical exposure reduction is to limit who holds a live authenticated Joomla session that a forged request could ride on: restrict administrator and privileged front-end logins to trusted networks or a VPN, and require administrators to log out when not actively administering the site, accepting the trade-off of reduced administrative convenience. Because the flaw is a missing request-integrity check inside the extension rather than a server configuration issue, generic hardening does not remove the risk; the vendor update is the corrective action, and the input does not document a vendor-endorsed configuration workaround. Note also that no vendor-released patch version is confirmed in the available data beyond the changelog reference, so verify the fix explicitly rather than assuming the latest download is patched.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) is an authorization-integrity weakness in which a web application accepts a state-changing HTTP request without reliably binding it to the user's session - typically through a missing or unvalidated anti-CSRF token, or through unsafe handling of state-changing GET requests. In a Joomla extension this usually means the request handlers for administrative or front-end actions do not call Joomla's token check (JSession::checkToken()/Joomla\CMS\Session\Session::checkToken()), allowing a third-party site to submit requests that the browser automatically attaches the victim's Joomla session cookie to. The affected component is the StageIt extension for Joomla from php-web-design.com, represented in the supplied CPE data as cpe:2.3:a:php-web-design.com:stageit_extension_for_joomla with a wildcard version field, so the CPE itself does not pin a release and the version ranges in the vendor/reporter data must be used instead. Because the vulnerable behavior depends on the victim's browser carrying an active authenticated session, the CVSS vectors correctly require user interaction (UI:P in CVSS 4.0, UI:R in the assessed 3.1 vector) while requiring no attacker privileges (PR:N). The specific state-changing actions exposed to forgery are described in the available sources only as 'various actions' and are not individually enumerated; the trigger details for each action are not described in the available sources.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CSRF is network-reachable with low complexity and no attacker privileges but needs victim interaction (UI:R); it forces state-changing actions affecting integrity and availability, with no confidentiality impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Joomla).
CVSS VectorVendor: Joomla
DescriptionCVE.org
Joomla Extension - php-web-design.com - CSRF for various actions in StageIt 1.0-5.7.5, 6.0-6.3.5
Executive ViewAI
A high-severity vulnerability in the StageIt extension for Joomla exposes organizations running affected versions (1.0 through 5.7.5 and 6.0 through 6.3.5) to attacker-driven state changes executed with logged-in users' privileges. Because exploitation requires only that a legitimate administrator or user be lured into visiting a malicious page, integrity and availability of Joomla-based web properties are at risk without any attacker credentials. Leadership should care because a successful attack could allow unauthorized configuration or content changes and service disruption on public-facing sites, with no vendor patch currently available.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Disable or remove the StageIt extension where feasible; restrict administrative access to trusted networks and require re-authentication; deploy WAF rules enforcing origin/referer validation on state-changing requests; and monitor vendor advisories for a fixed release.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
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