Joomla!: [20180602] - Core - XSS vulnerability in language switcher module (CVE-2018-12711)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
06/26/2018
07/25/2018
06/27/2018
08/21/2018
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.
Solution(s)
- joomla-upgrade-3_8_9
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