Vulnerability in Joomla Joomla\!

CVE-2012-1599

Joomla! 1.5.x before 1.5.26 does not properly check permissions, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive "administrative back end information" via unknown vectors. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2012-1611.

Published 2012-12-03 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (60.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 60.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Joomla Joomla\! — versions 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/5 (mailing-list)
developer.joomla.org/security/news/397-20120306-core-information-disclosure.html (Vendor Advisory)