PT-2012-2887 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Ankita Kapadia · Published 2012-09-06 · Updated 2012-09-07 · CVE-2012-0820

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 1.6.x through 1.7.3

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For Joomla! versions 1.6.x through 1.7.3, update to version 1.7.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0820

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 11

• http://joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5405-joomla-174-released.html · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0820 · Security Note
• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/383-20120102-core-xss-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47753 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/30/1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/26/4 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/26/2 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0820 · Note
• http://joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5403-joomla-250-released.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/25/1 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/78515 · Note