PT-2017-18047 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Published 2017-04-25 · Updated 2019-03-19 · CVE-2017-7985

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Description The issue arises from inadequate filtering of multibyte characters, leading to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.

Recommendations For versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5, update to version 3.7.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7985

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7985 · Security Note
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/685-20170403-core-xss-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7985 · Vendor Advisory
• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-108 · Note
• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-107 · Note
• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-109 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98020 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1038817 · Note