CVE-2024-21725 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Inadequate escaping of mail addresses lead to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.

Published: 2024-02-20

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 1.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Joomla! Project

Joomla! CMS

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`4.0.0-4.4.2`	affected	—
`5.0.0-5.0.2`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!::::::::

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Remediation

No remediation available yet.

Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01231.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/928-20240204-core-xss-in-mail-address-outputs.html

History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.01138}`	epss `{'score': 0.01539}`

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Joomla Joomla joomla\!
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!::::::::
Vendors & Products		Joomla Joomla joomla\!

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Joomla Joomla\!

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Joomla

Published: 2024-02-20T16:22:57.554Z

Updated: 2024-10-28T04:34:16.221Z

Reserved: 2024-01-01T04:30:58.880Z

Link: CVE-2024-21725

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T22:27:35.950Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-29T01:44:03.837

Modified: 2025-06-02T15:27:04.010

Link: CVE-2024-21725

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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