Joomla! Language Search Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50879

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/50879/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=50879

RELEASE DATE:
2012-10-10
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Joomla!, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Certain unspecified input passed to the language search component 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.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.0.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jeff Channell

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability