PT-2018-11346 · Joomla · Joomla!

Borja Lorenzo · Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2018-08-20 · CVE-2018-12711

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 1.6.0 through 3.8.8

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue was found in the language switcher module. The link of the current language may contain unescaped HTML special characters, potentially leading to reflective XSS via injection of arbitrary parameters and/or values on the current page URL.

Recommendations For Joomla! versions 1.6.0 through 3.8.8, update to version 3.8.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-12711

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12711 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12711 · Security Note
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041244 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12711 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104565 · Note