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CVE-2024-40743 (GCVE-0-2024-40743)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-20 16:03 – Updated: 2024-11-03 04:33
VLAI
Title
[20240805] - Core - XSS vectors in Outputfilter::strip* methods
Summary
The stripImages and stripIframes methods didn't properly process inputs, leading to XSS vectors.
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 16:13 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: 3.0.0-3.10.16
Affected: 4.0.0-4.4.6
Affected: 5.0.0-5.1.2
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Credits
Jesper den Boer
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