CVE-2018-12711

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12711
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12711.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-12711
Published
2018-06-26T19:29:00.250Z
Modified
2026-07-08T17:15:13.469394Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
28aef911901979246d398f0580c436c87dfec59d
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\\!:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.6.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.8.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.3
2.*
2.5.0
2.5.0_beta1
2.5.0_beta2
2.5.1
2.5.4
2.5.5
2.5.6
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.0_alpha-1
3.0.0_alpha-2
3.0.0_beta1
3.0.1
3.0.3
3.1.0_beta1
3.1.0_beta2
3.1.0_beta3
3.1.0_beta4
3.1.0_beta5
3.1.1
3.1.5
3.2.0
3.2.0.alpha
3.2.0.beta
3.2.0.rc
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.2.4
3.3.0
3.4.0
3.4.0-beta1
3.4.0-beta2
3.4.0-beta3
3.4.0-rc
3.4.1
3.4.1-rc
3.4.1-rc2
3.4.2
3.4.2-rc
3.4.3
3.4.4
3.4.4-rc
3.4.4-rc2
3.4.5
3.5.0
3.5.0-beta
3.5.0-beta2
3.5.0-beta3
3.5.0-beta4
3.5.0-beta5
3.5.0-rc
3.5.0-rc2
3.5.0-rc4
3.5.1
3.5.1-rc
3.5.1-rc2
3.6.0
3.6.0-alpha
3.6.0-beta1
3.6.0-beta2
3.6.0-rc
3.6.0-rc2
3.6.1
3.6.1-rc1
3.6.1-rc2
3.6.2
3.6.3
3.6.3-rc1
3.6.3-rc2
3.6.3-rc3
3.7.0
3.7.0-alpha1
3.7.0-beta1
3.7.0-beta2
3.7.0-beta3
3.7.0-beta4
3.7.0-rc1
3.7.0-rc2
3.7.0-rc3
3.7.0-rc4
3.7.1
3.7.1-rc1
3.7.1-rc2
3.7.2
3.7.3
3.7.3-beta1
3.7.3-rc1
3.7.3-rc2
3.7.4-beta1
3.7.4-rc1
3.8.0
3.8.0-beta1
3.8.0-beta2
3.8.0-beta3
3.8.0-beta4
3.8.0-rc1
3.8.1
3.8.1-rc
3.8.2
3.8.2-rc
3.8.3
3.8.3-rc
3.8.4
3.8.4-rc
3.8.4-rc2
3.8.5
3.8.5-rc
3.8.6
3.8.6-rc1
3.8.7
3.8.7-rc
3.8.8
3.8.8-rc

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12711.json"