CVE-2012-5455

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the language search component in Joomla! before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, related to a "typographical error."

Affected products

Joomla!: 3.0.0

References

http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability
http://osvdb.org/86134
http://secunia.com/advisories/50879
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55858
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79171
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability
http://osvdb.org/86134
http://secunia.com/advisories/50879
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55858
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79171

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