CVE-2018-12711
N/A
Published: June 26, 2018 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:38 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJoomla!
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-moduleQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-79
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