Medium severity6.1OSV Advisory· Published Jun 26, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-12711
CVE-2018-12711
Description
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.
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References
3- www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-modulenvdVendor Advisory
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