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Articles Anywhere security vulnerabilities

mySites.guru tracks 2 vulnerabilities in Articles Anywhere (pkg_articlesanywhere), covering 3 CVEs. Every connected Joomla site is checked against them on each audit.

Is my site affected?

Your site is affected if it runs Articles Anywhere in any of these ranges:

  • from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.1.1
  • from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.0.0
Latest safe version
20.1.1 or later. No rule we check matches that release or any newer one.
What to do
Update Articles Anywhere to 20.1.1 or later from the vendor, then confirm the installed version on the Joomla administrator's Extensions: Manage screen.
Check whether your sites are affected

Every Articles Anywhere vulnerability we track

Newest first. CVSS is the score published in each CVE record, where it has one; the severity column is the rating our check uses.

CVEAffected versionsFixed inSeverityAdded
CVE-2026-102802from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.1.120.1.1High2026-10-31
CVE-2026-85195CVSS 7.5CVE-2026-85196CVSS 5.3from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.0.020.0.0High2026-09-13

What we check for

HighCVE-2026-1028022026-10-31

Articles Anywhere (articlesanywhere) 19.0.0 to below 20.1.1 - Authenticated PHP Execution via Included Articles when Sourcerer is also installed

CVE-2026-102802 (CVE record reserved, not yet published). When Regular Labs Sourcerer is installed alongside Articles Anywhere, an article included through an Articles Anywhere tag had its Sourcerer PHP run under the trust of the HOST article rather than its own author. A content author whose own articles are not trusted to run Sourcerer PHP could therefore get their PHP executed by having their article pulled into a trusted article (for example by a category or latest-articles listing). Sites without Sourcerer are not affected by this issue. The fix is joint: update Articles Anywhere to 20.1.1 or later AND Sourcerer to 17.0.1 or later (31 October 2026); updating only one of the two leaves the site exposed. Free and Pro editions are both affected. Temporary mitigation: restrict which user groups can create or edit articles, or disable Sourcerer PHP in articles until both extensions are updated.

Affected versions: ≥ 19.0.0 and < 20.1.1

Full advisory: our disclosure post

HighCVE-2026-85195CVE-2026-851962026-09-13

Articles Anywhere (articlesanywhere) 19.0.0 to below 20.0.0 - Authenticated Stored and Reflected XSS via Unescaped Request Input and JavaScript Events

Regular Labs Articles Anywhere 19.0.0 through 19.0.6 is affected by two vendor-confirmed security defects, both fixed in 20.0.0 (released 13 September 2026). CVE-2026-85196: request input consumed by Articles Anywhere data tags was not escaped, and the optional raw output mode was available to any article author, allowing script to be injected into rendered article content. CVE-2026-85195: JavaScript Events could be attached by any user able to author article content; 20.0.0 restricts them to selected article author groups by default. Exploitation requires the ability to author or edit content containing Articles Anywhere tags, or a page that already feeds request input into one, so this is an authenticated stored XSS with a reflected vector on affected pages. Update to 20.0.0 or later. Note that 20.0.0 is flagged by the vendor as a BC BREAK: the JavaScript Events restriction is enabled by default and has to be re-opened deliberately per author group, so review those settings after updating. The same release also tightens destination checks for external image downloads, which the vendor did not label a security fix. The CVE records were published on 14 September 2026: CVE-2026-85195 at CVSS 4.0 7.5 (High), vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:N/AU:N; CVE-2026-85196 at CVSS 4.0 5.3 (Medium), vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N.

Affected versions: ≥ 19.0.0 and < 20.0.0

Full advisory: regularlabs.com

Timeline

  1. 13 September 2026Check added for CVE-2026-85195 and CVE-2026-85196 (from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.0.0)
  2. 14 September 2026CVE-2026-85195 record published
  3. 14 September 2026CVE-2026-85196 record published
  4. 31 October 2026Check added for CVE-2026-102802 (from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.1.1)

References

Each CVE page above links its official cve.org record and its NVD entry.

Articles Anywhere vulnerability questions

Which versions of Articles Anywhere are vulnerable?
mySites.guru tracks 2 vulnerabilities in Articles Anywhere (pkg_articlesanywhere). A site is affected if its installed version is in any of these ranges: from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.1.1; from 19.0.0 up to but not including 20.0.0.
What is the latest safe version of Articles Anywhere?
20.1.1. Every vulnerability tracked here is fixed by 20.1.1, and no rule we check matches that release or any later one.
How do I check which version of Articles Anywhere my Joomla site runs?
The installed version is listed on the Joomla administrator's Extensions: Manage screen; search it for pkg_articlesanywhere. mySites.guru reads the installed version on every audit of a connected site and checks it against these rules.

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CVE identifiers: CVE-2026-102802, CVE-2026-85195, CVE-2026-85196. Rules current as of 31 October 2026.