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CVE-2018-12711
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…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References3
- 104565 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1041244 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-4664 (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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