PT-2012-5980 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Published 2012-10-22 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-5455

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 prior to 3.0.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the language search component, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. This issue is related to a typographical error.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.1, update to version 3.0.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5455

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5455 · Security Note
• http://joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50879 · Vendor Advisory
• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/55858 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5455 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79171 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/86134 · Note