CVE-2011-2509

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla!

published July 27, 2011

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.6.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the query string to the com_contact component, as demonstrated by the Itemid parameter to index.php; (2) the query string to the com_content component, as demonstrated by the filter_order parameter to index.php; (3) the query string to the com_newsfeeds component, as demonstrated by an arbitrary parameter to index.php; or (4) the option parameter in a reset.request action to index.php; and, when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used, (5) 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01089 · 65.1th percentile
Published
2011-07-27T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JUL 20:00Z
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla!
    cvelistv5