CVE-2018-12711 — Cross-site Scripting in Joomla !

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 20.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Joomla !
Timeline
PublishedJun 26
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. In some cases, the link of the current language might contain unescaped HTML special characters. This may lead to reflective XSS via injection of arbitrary parameters and/or values on the current page URL.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDjoomla/joomla_!1.6.0 — 3.8.8

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wrjp-g4mp-gh85: An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2018-12711: An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1↗2018-06-26
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