PT-2017-18049 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

David Jardin · Published 2017-04-25 · Updated 2017-05-03 · CVE-2017-7987

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 3.2.0 through 3.6.5

Description The issue is related to inadequate escaping of file and folder names, which leads to XSS vulnerabilities in the template manager component.

Recommendations For versions 3.2.0 through 3.6.5, update to version 3.7.0 to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7987

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7987 · Security Note
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/687-20170405-core-xss-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7987 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98021 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7987 · Note