CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2509

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2011-07-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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