CVE-2018-12711

6.1 mediumEPSS 1.4%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.1 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2018-06-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

joomla:joomla\!

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

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