cve-2018-12711
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-26 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 08:45
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-moduleVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-moduleVendor Advisory
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