GHSA-vcq7-x4wr-w2mjMedium

Joomla! vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Published
May 14, 2022
Last Modified
April 12, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.6.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the query string to the com_contact component, as demonstrated by the Itemid parameter to index.php; (2) the query string to the com_content component, as demonstrated by the filter_order parameter to index.php; (3) the query string to the com_newsfeeds component, as demonstrated by an arbitrary parameter to index.php; or (4) the option parameter in a reset.request action to index.php; and, when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used, (5) allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchword parameter in a search action to index.php in the com_search component.

🎯 Affected products1

  • composer/joomla/joomla-cms:< 1.6.4

🔗 References (6)