Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, where some have unknown impacts and one can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Joomla! Cross-Site Scripting and Unspecified Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23563
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23563/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Unknown, Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Joomla! 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5788/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, where some have
unknown impacts and one can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed to an unspecified parameter is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.
2) The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors in
Joomla!. The vendor describes them as "several low level security
issues". No further information is currently available.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.0.11. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.12.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Fukumori
2) Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2345006961/index.html
2) http://www.joomla.org/content/view/2446/1/
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