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CVE-2018-12711

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.

Published

2018-06-26T19:29:00.250

Last Modified

2024-11-21T03:45:43.100

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.1 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	joomla	joomla\!	≤ 3.8.8	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)