CVE-2017-7985
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
In Joomla! 1.5.0 through 3.6.5 (fixed in 3.7.0), inadequate filtering of multibyte characters leads to XSS vulnerabilities in various components.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
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\! | {"startIncluding":"1.5.0","endIncluding":"3.6.5"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98020
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038817
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/685-20170403-core-xss-vulnerability
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-107
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-108
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-109
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98020
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038817
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/685-20170403-core-xss-vulnerability
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-107
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-108
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-17-109
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.