• Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Impact: Low
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 1.6.0 through 3.8.8
  • Exploit type: XSS
  • Reported Date: 2018-May-07
  • Fixed Date: 2018-June-26
  • CVE Number: CVE-2018-12711

Description

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.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.6.0 through 3.8.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.9

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Borja Lorenzo, Innotecsystem