An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
8.8 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)