CVE-2012-2901

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Profile List in the Joomla Content Editor (JCE) component before 2.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search parameter to administrator/index.php.

Affected products

Ryan Demmer Joomla Content Editor: through 2.0.21; 2.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/49206
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-14/
http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/news/item/jce-21-released?category_id=32
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53559
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75670
http://secunia.com/advisories/49206
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-14/
http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/news/item/jce-21-released?category_id=32
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53559
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75670

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