National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4532
Original release date:10/31/2012
Last revised:11/01/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in modules/mod_languages/tmpl/default.php in the Language Switcher module for Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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: OSVDB
Name: 83490
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20121019 Re: CVE request: Joomla two XSS vulnerabilities fixed in 2.5.7
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20121007 CVE request: Joomla two XSS vulnerabilities fixed in 2.5.7
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5463-joomla-2-5-7-released.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.darksecurity.de/advisories/2012/SSCHADV2012-014.txt
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 49678
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/540-20120902-core-xss-vulnerability
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)