FKIE_CVE-2018-11328

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-05-22 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:35
Severity
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Under specific circumstances (a redirect issued with a URI containing a username and password when the Location: header cannot be used), a lack of escaping the user-info component of the URI could result in an XSS vulnerability.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104269Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040966Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/736-20180508-core-possible-xss-attack-in-the-redirect-method.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104269Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040966Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/736-20180508-core-possible-xss-attack-in-the-redirect-method.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
joomla joomla\! *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:35:43.910",
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