CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12711
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
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.
Affected configurations
• joomla joomla\! (>= 1.6.0 <= 3.8.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module Vendor Advisory