CVE-2011-4909

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Joomla!: through 1.5.11; 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5 (+5)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0012.html
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35668
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
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0012.html
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35668
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/8

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