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title: "Security digest: February 16, 2023"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2023-02-16/
description: "February 16, 2023 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (Joomla CVE-2023-23752: Unauthenticated API Leaks…). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2023-02-16
date_modified: 2026-10-23
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: February 16, 2023

1 editorial brief.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: Joomla CVE-2023-23752: Unauthenticated API Leaks DB Password . Owners of Joomla sites that ran 4.0.0 through 4.2.7 on the public internet, and anyone still on the unsupported Joomla 4 line.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [Joomla CVE-2023-23752: Unauthenticated API Leaks DB Password](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/joomla-cve-2023-23752-api-public-config-leak/index.md): A medium score hides a database-password leak that has been mass-scanned since 2023; any site that ran Joomla 4.0.0-4.2.7 should be upgraded off the unsupported 4.x line and have its leaked secrets rotated.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

None.

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