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CVE-2024-27186 (GCVE-0-2024-27186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-20 16:03 – Updated: 2024-11-26 04:35
VLAI
Title
[20240803] - Core - XSS in HTML Mail Templates
Summary
The mail template feature lacks an escaping mechanism, causing XSS vectors in multiple extensions.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-20 17:38 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS Affected: 4.0.0-4.4.6
Affected: 5.0.0-5.1.2
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Credits
Elysee Franchuk
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