CVE-2011-4909
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.5.12 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.5.12 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the HTTP_REFERER header to (1) components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/form.php, (2) components/com_user/controller.php, (3) plugins/system/legacy/html.php, or (4) templates/beez/html/com_content/article/form.php.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 55589 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20120702 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] Joomla! < 1.5.12 Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in HTTP Headers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 35668 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20111225 Re: CVE-request for three 2009 Joomla issues (second part) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 35544 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20111225 CVE-request for three 2009 Joomla issues (second part) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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