PT-2018-10487 · Joomla · Joomla! Core

David Jardin · Published 2018-05-22 · Updated 2018-06-22 · CVE-2018-11328

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! Core versions prior to 3.8.8

Description A lack of escaping the user-info component of the URI could result in an XSS issue under specific circumstances, such as when a redirect is issued with a URI containing a username and password, and the Location: header cannot be used.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.8.8, update to version 3.8.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-11328

Affected Products

Joomla! Core

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11328 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11328 · Security Note
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/736-20180508-core-possible-xss-attack-in-the-redirect-method.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040966 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11328 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104269 · Note