Description
An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. In some cases, the link of the current language might contain unescaped HTML special characters. This may lead to reflective XSS via injection of arbitrary parameters and/or values on the current page URL.
Published: 2018-06-26
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-4664 An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. In some cases, the link of the current language might contain unescaped HTML special characters. This may lead to reflective XSS via injection of arbitrary parameters and/or values on the current page URL.
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0142}

epss

{'score': 0.01238}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T08:45:02.148Z

Reserved: 2018-06-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-12711

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-26T19:29:00.250

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:45:43.100

Link: CVE-2018-12711

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