The Helix3 plugin for Joomla exposes an ajax handler task, that allows unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files, write arbitrary JSON files and update template parameters.
CVE-2026-49049
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than the CVSS score beside it.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue (Source: ENISA EUVD), indicating that ENISA records real-world exploitation of it. It is not on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.5 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.5 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2026-40122 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Exploited in the wild, as ENISA's EU KEV records it (Source: ENISA EUVD); CISA has not listed it
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 89EG Risk 89/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for an ENISA EU KEV listing (CISA's catalog does not list this CVE): EchelonGraph's rule. Source: ENISA EUVD.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation active (ENISA EU KEV listing; Source: ENISA EUVD) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). From CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment): automatable and technical impact; the others come from the sources named beside them. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. - EPSS PROB
- 1.0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 62nd
- KEV
- Not in CISA'sENISA's EU KEV lists it (below). Source: ENISA EUVD
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the ENISA EU KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.5 HIGH. Source: ENISA EUVD.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 1.0% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- ENISA EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Attend at medium mission impactAttend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
ENISA EU KEV: listed July 10, 2026, reported by CERT-EE, CERT-PL; not on CISA's KEV catalog.
Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement. How a listing moves the EG score
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).
No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
Exploitation active (ENISA EU KEV listing; Source: ENISA EUVD) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). From CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment): automatable and technical impact; the others come from the sources named beside them. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
June 29, 2026
Last Modified
October 25, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jun 29, 2026Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-49049(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 247 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 147 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-28 01:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 01:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 62nd percentile
- 2026-10-27 01:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 01:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 62nd percentile
- 2026-10-25 21:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 62nd percentile
- 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCEG score recompute▲ 1.50
- 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-25 13:46 UTCENISA EU KEV listingEUVD-2026-40122 · listed July 10, 2026 · reported by CERT-EE, CERT-PL · Source: ENISA EUVD
- 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 62nd percentile
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- 2026-10-18 16:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 16:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 61st percentile
- 2026-10-18 03:34 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 12:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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- 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 61st percentile
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- 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 61st percentile
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- 2026-09-23 07:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 07:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 61st percentile
- 2026-09-18 06:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 06:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 60th percentile
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- 2026-09-14 00:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-14 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 60th percentile
- 2026-09-13 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-09-12 15:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-12 15:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 60th percentile
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- 2026-09-06 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-06 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 60th percentile
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- 2026-08-30 18:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 59th percentile
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- 2026-08-27 22:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-27 22:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.0% · 60th percentile
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- 2026-08-25 02:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-25 02:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-24 13:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-24 13:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-24 00:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-23 11:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-23 11:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 97th percentile
- 2026-08-22 22:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-22 09:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-22 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 97th percentile
- 2026-08-21 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-21 07:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xr7r-292v-jxg8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 97th percentile
Publicly available exploits
(3 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 1 GitHub checker repository. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.
- Nucleihttp/cves/2026/CVE-2026-49049.yamlPublished Aug 14, 2026
JoomShaper Helix3 <=3.1.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary JSON File Write
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCJenderal92/CVE-2026-49049Published Aug 2, 2026
Mass vulnerability scanner for CVE-2026-49049 – Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Joomla Helix3 plugin. Multi‑threaded, detects both executed and raw PHP payloads.
Open source ↗ - GitHub checkershinthink/CVE-2026-49049Published Jul 4, 2026
Read-only vulnerability scanner for CVE-2026-49049 — Helix3 Joomla plugin unauthenticated AJAX handler
Open source ↗
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