CVE-2018-12711

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. In some cases, the link of the current language might contain unescaped HTML special characters. This may lead to reflective XSS via injection of arbitrary parameters and/or values on the current page URL.

Affected products

Joomla!: from 1.6.0 through 3.8.8

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module

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