VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0822

medium
Published 2012-09-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0820.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6.0
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6.1
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6.3
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6.4
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6.5
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.6.6
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.0
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.1
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.2
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.3

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.