National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4909
Original release date:10/07/2012
Last revised:10/08/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 35544
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 55589
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20111225 Re: CVE-request for three 2009 Joomla issues (second part)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20111225 CVE-request for three 2009 Joomla issues (second part)
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35668
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20120702 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] Joomla! < 1.5.12 Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in HTTP Headers
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)