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CVE-2018-11328

An issue was discovered in Joomla!

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.7
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.3%
percentile 71%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Under specific circumstances (a redirect issued with a URI containing a username and password when the Location: header cannot be used), a lack of escaping the user-info component of the URI could result in an XSS vulnerability.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.31% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.04.7CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD2.02.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/104269 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • developer.joomla.org /security-centre/736-20180508-core-possible-xss-attack-in-the-redirect-method.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id/1040966 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.