CVE-2011-2710

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.7.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the URI to includes/application.php, reachable through index.php; and, when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used, (2) 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. NOTE: vector 2 exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-2509.5.

Affected products

Joomla!: through 1.6.6; 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5 (+42)

References

http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/357-20110701-xss-vulnerability.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/16/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/27
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/%5Bjoomla_1.7.0-rc%5D_cross_site_scripting%28XSS%29
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/357-20110701-xss-vulnerability.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/16/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/27
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/%5Bjoomla_1.7.0-rc%5D_cross_site_scripting%28XSS%29

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