title: [20230502] - Core - Bruteforce prevention within the mfa screen
description: An issue was discovered in Joomla! 4.2.0 through 4.3.1. The lack of rate limiting allowed brute force attacks against MFA methods.
problem types: Lack of rate limiting
affected:
{
defaultStatus: unaffected
product: Joomla! CMS
vendor: Joomla! Project
versions:
status: affected, version: 4.2.0-4.3.1
}