XSS in Joomla Joomla\!
CVE-2011-2710
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.7.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the URI to includes/application.php, reachable through index.php; and, when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used, (2) allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchword parameter in a search action to index.php in the com_search component. NOTE: vector 2 exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-2509.5.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (68.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Joomla Joomla\! — versions 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- developer.joomla.org/security/news/357-20110701-xss-vulnerability.html
- yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/[joomla_1.7.0-rc]_cross_site_scriptin…
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/27 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/5 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/1 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/16/1 (mailing-list)