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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2018-12711

Related Vulnerabilities

Roundcube Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2017-6820)

PHP Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') Vulnerability (CVE-2022-31631)

Python Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability (CVE-2016-9063)

MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2022-29907)

Drupal Core 8.5.x Cross-Site Scripting (8.5.0 - 8.5.1)

Severity

Medium

Classification

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities CWE-707 CVE-2018-12711