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CVE-2011-4909

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.5.12 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.5.12 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the HTTP_REFERER header to (1) components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/form.php, (2) components/com_user/controller.php, (3) plugins/system/legacy/html.php, or (4) templates/beez/html/com_content/article/form.php.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.00123
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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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Affected Products & Versions

2
joomla joomla\!<= 1.5.11
joomla joomla\!all versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

2
webappsJoomla! 1.5.x - Cross-Site Scripting / Information Disclosureverified
pocarchives.neohapsis.com · 0012.htmlarchives.neohapsis.com
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Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD07 Oct 2012 · 09:55 PM
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References & Sources

6
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35668Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/8
http://www.osvdb.org/55589
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35544
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