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CVE-2020-37218

Published: May 13, 2026

Modified: May 14, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.2

HIGH

Description

Joomla com_hdwplayer 4.2 contains an SQL injection vulnerability in the search.php file that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by injecting malicious code through the hdwplayersearch parameter. Attackers can submit POST requests with crafted SQL payloads in the hdwplayersearch parameter to extract sensitive database information from the hdwplayer_videos table.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Hdwplayer	com_hdwplayer	affected `4.2`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

ExploitDB-48242

exploit

Official Product Homepage

product

Product Reference

product

VulnCheck Advisory: Joomla com_hdwplayer 4.2 SQL Injection via search.php

third-party-advisory

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