National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4332
Original release date:11/23/2011
Last revised:11/28/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! 1.6.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
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: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20111121 Re: Fwd: XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerability-in-joomla-163/
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20111110 XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/349-20110601-xss-vulnerabilities.html
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)