PT-2020-15760 · Joomla · Joomla!

Peter Martin · Published 2020-08-26 · Updated 2025-04-03 · CVE-2020-24599

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 prior to 3.9.21

Description A security issue was found in the mod latestactions module, where the lack of proper escaping allows for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.9.21, update to version 3.9.21 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

BIT-JOOMLA-2020-24599

CVE-2020-24599

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24599 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-joomla-2020-24599 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24599 · Vendor Advisory
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/824-20200801-core-xss-in-mod-latestactions · Vendor Advisory