Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.1.0 through 3.9.23. The lack of escaping of image-related parameters in multiple com_tags views cause lead to XSS attack vectors.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23125
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.1.0 through 3.9.23. The lack of escaping of image-related parameters in multiple com_tags views cause lead to XSS attack vectors.
osv:CVE-2021-23125
Complete source record
{
"id": "e0017d9b0db27e7d047c392c6b2d341b78e189ff91e3ca4276a7d8263f361931",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-23125",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2021-23125",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.1.0 through 3.9.23. The lack of escaping of image-related parameters in multiple com_tags views cause lead to XSS attack vectors.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-23125",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2021-23125",
"aliases": [
"BIT-joomla-2021-23125",
"CVE-2021-23125"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "b7c37b477b0231cfdbf1251f25a9096a173d3f58"
},
{
"last_affected": "435d780d9a87504267256033c5f6fb984f713ff9"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\\!:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "3.1.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "3.9.23"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-23125.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:19.065241102Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/838-20210103-core-xss-in-com-tags-image-parameters.html"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2021-23125",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429928,
"published_at": "2021-01-12T21:15:18.997+00:00"
}