Joomla! Cross-Site Scripting and Unspecified Vulnerabilities

Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 @ 10:58:24 CST in Security
by Raven

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA23563

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/23563/

CRITICAL: Less critical

IMPACT: Unknown, Cross Site Scripting

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/