• Project: Joomla!
• SubProject: CMS
• Impact: Low
• Severity: Low
• Versions: 3.1.2 through 3.8.7
• Exploit type: XSS
• Reported Date: 2018-March-30
• Fixed Date: 2018-May-22
• CVE Number: CVE-2018-11328

Description

Under specific circumstances (a redirect issued with a URI containing a username and password when the Location: header cannot be used), a lack of escaping the user-info component of the URI could result in a XSS vulnerability.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.1.2 through 3.8.7

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.8

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.