CVE-2020-23972

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—Exploit

Severity7.5High · CVSS 3.1

Exploitation probability31 %higher than 98% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB · Nuclei template (automated mass detection)

In Joomla Component GMapFP Version J3.5 and J3.5free, an attacker can access the upload function without authenticating to the application and can also upload files which due to issues of unrestricted file uploads which can be bypassed by changing the content-type and name file too double extensions.

CVSS

Base score: 7.5
Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 31 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 98
Score date: 10/28/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Joomla! Component GMapFP 3.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (12/1/2020)
Nuclei template (automated mass detection) · Joomla! Component GMapFP 3.5 - Arbitrary File Upload

Affected technologies (1)

Gmapfp — Gmapfp

CWEs

CWE-434

References

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