PT-2012-5464 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Henri Salo · Published 2012-10-31 · Updated 2012-11-01 · CVE-2012-4532

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 2.5.x through 2.5.6

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This is achieved by manipulating the PATH INFO to index.php.

Recommendations For versions 2.5.x through 2.5.6, update to version 2.5.7 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Language Switcher module until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4532

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 9

• 🔥 http://darksecurity.de/advisories/2012/SSCHADV2012-014.txt · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49678 · Vendor Advisory
• http://joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5463-joomla-2-5-7-released.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4532 · Security Note
• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/540-20120902-core-xss-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/19/4 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4532 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/07/3 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/83490 · Note