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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3480

Original release date:07/10/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.0.10 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters involving the (1) getUserStateFromRequest function, and the (2) SEF and (3) com_messages modules.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 4.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: BID

Name: 18742

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18742

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 26913

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/26913

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/1511/78/

Hyperlink:http://www.joomla.org/content/view/1511/78/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/1510/74/