CVE-2012-5455
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the language search component in Joomla! before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, related to a "typographical error."
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| joomla | joomla\! | 3.0.0 | |
References
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability
- http://osvdb.org/86134
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50879
- http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55858
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79171
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability
- http://osvdb.org/86134
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50879
- http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55858
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79171
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.