Vulnerability CVE-2018-11328
Published: 2018-05-22

Description:
An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Under specific circumstances (a redirect issued with a URI containing a username and password when the Location: header cannot be used), a lack of escaping the user-info component of the URI could result in an XSS vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Joomla -> Joomla! 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104269
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040966
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/736-20180508-core-possible-xss-attack-in-the-redirect-method.html
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