CVE-2026-102789

Joomla Extension - balbooa.com - Missing Authorization Check on Editor Controller Task in Gridbox < 2.20.4.2

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.3
EPSS: EPSS 0.32 % · percentile 24 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-10-27
Updated: 2026-10-27
Assigner: Joomla
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Description

Joomla Extension - balbooa.com - Missing Authorization Check on Editor Controller Task in Gridbox < 2.20.4.2 - EditorController::getBlogPosts() reads the order parameter and invokes getBlogPosts() . Unlike other tasks in this controller, it omits the GridboxHelper::checkUserEditLevel() check.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 4.0	CRITICAL 9.3	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	Joomla
CVSS 4.0	CRITICAL 9.3	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X	NVD · security@joomla.org (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-284

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-110644
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-102789

Affected products

Product	Versions
balbooa.com · Gridbox extension for Joomla	affected 1.0.0-2.20.4.1

References

https://www.balbooa.com/gridbox

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD