PT-2010-5021 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Aung Khant · Published 2010-10-27 · Updated 2018-08-13 · CVE-2010-3712

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions 1.5.x through 1.5.20 Joomla! versions 1.6.x through 1.6.0

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving multiple encoded entities, as demonstrated by the query string to "index.php" in the com weblinks or com content component.

Recommendations For Joomla! versions 1.5.x through 1.5.20, update to version 1.5.21 or later. For Joomla! versions 1.6.x through 1.6.0, update to version 1.6.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3712

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 11

• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/9-security/10-core-security/322-20101001-core-xss-vulnerabilities · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3712 · Security Note
• http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=32&tracker_item_id=22767 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/08/4 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/13/8 · Note
• http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/%5Bjoomla_1.5.20%5D_cross_site_scripting%28XSS%29 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/11/4 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/22 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/5 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3712 · Note