{"id":"CVE-2021-26040","details":"An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.0.0. The media manager does not correctly check the user's permissions before executing a file deletion command.","aliases":["BIT-joomla-2021-26040"],"modified":"2026-04-10T04:31:11.160845Z","published":"2021-08-24T15:15:06.910Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/861-20210801-core-insufficient-access-control-for-com-media-deletion-endpoint"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5f20de27b9640124ba185670a36ec40ebc9ec3f9"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.0.0-NA"}]}}],"versions":["1.7.3","2.5.0","2.5.0_beta1","2.5.0_beta2","2.5.1","2.5.4","2.5.5","2.5.6","3.0.0","3.0.0_alpha-1","3.0.0_alpha-2","3.0.0_beta1","3.0.1","3.0.3","3.1.0_beta1","3.1.0_beta2","3.1.0_beta3","3.1.0_beta4","3.1.0_beta5","3.1.1","3.1.5","3.2.0","3.2.0.alpha","3.2.0.beta","3.2.0.rc","3.2.1","3.2.2","3.2.3","3.2.4","3.3.0","3.4.0","3.4.0-beta1","3.4.0-beta2","3.4.0-beta3","3.4.0-rc","3.4.1","3.4.1-rc","3.4.1-rc2","3.4.2","3.4.2-rc","3.4.3","3.4.4","3.4.4-rc","3.4.4-rc2","3.4.5","3.5.0-beta","3.5.0-beta2","4.0.0","4.0.0-alpha1","4.0.0-alpha10","4.0.0-alpha11","4.0.0-alpha12","4.0.0-alpha2","4.0.0-alpha4","4.0.0-alpha5","4.0.0-alpha6","4.0.0-alpha7","4.0.0-alpha8","4.0.0-alpha9","4.0.0-beta","4.0.0-beta2","4.0.0-beta3","4.0.0-beta4","4.0.0-beta5","4.0.0-beta6","4.0.0-beta7","4.0.0-rc1","4.0.0-rc2","4.0.0-rc3","4.0.0-rc4","4.0.0-rc5","4.0.0-rc6"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-26040.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"}]}