CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2509
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-07-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.6.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the query string to the com_contact component, as demonstrated by the Itemid parameter to index.php; (2) the query string to the com_content component, as demonstrated by the filter_order parameter to index.php; (3) the query string to the com_newsfeeds component, as demonstrated by an arbitrary parameter to index.php; or (4) the option parameter in a reset.request action to index.php; and, when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used, (5) allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchword parameter in a search action to index.php in the com_search component.
Affected configurations
• joomla joomla\! (<= 1.6.3)
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.0
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.1
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.2
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.3
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.4
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.5
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.6
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.7
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.8
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.9
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.10
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.11
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.12
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.13
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.14
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.15
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.16
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.17
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.18
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.19
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.20
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.21
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.22
• joomla joomla\! 1.5.23
• joomla joomla\! 1.6
• joomla joomla\! 1.6.0
• joomla joomla\! 1.6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/352-20110604-xss-vulnerability.html developer.joomla.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/4 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/29/12 Exploit
- http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/%5Bjoomla_1.6.3%5D_cross_site_scripting%28XSS%29 yehg.net
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/352-20110604-xss-vulnerability.html developer.joomla.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/4 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/29/12 Exploit
- http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/%5Bjoomla_1.6.3%5D_cross_site_scripting%28XSS%29 yehg.net