Security advisory

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  "id": "00f45681a1d003fe931a52f3805ff3ea7b634540a28fe133a81b0203e2ba1c2e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12711",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-12711",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-12711",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-12711",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-12711"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/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": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "28aef911901979246d398f0580c436c87dfec59d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\\!:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.8.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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            "3.8.7",
            "3.8.6",
            "3.8.4",
            "3.8.8-rc",
            "3.8.7-rc",
            "3.8.6-rc1",
            "3.8.3",
            "3.8.3-rc",
            "3.8.5",
            "3.8.5-rc",
            "3.8.4-rc2",
            "3.8.4-rc",
            "3.8.2",
            "3.8.1",
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            "3.8.1-rc",
            "3.8.0-rc1",
            "3.8.0-beta2",
            "3.8.0-beta4",
            "3.8.0-beta1",
            "3.8.0-beta3",
            "3.7.4-rc1",
            "3.7.4-beta1",
            "3.7.3",
            "3.7.3-rc2",
            "3.7.3-rc1",
            "3.7.3-beta1",
            "3.7.2",
            "3.7.1",
            "3.7.1-rc2",
            "3.7.1-rc1",
            "3.7.0",
            "3.7.0-rc4",
            "3.7.0-rc3",
            "3.7.0-rc2",
            "3.7.0-rc1",
            "3.7.0-beta4",
            "3.7.0-beta3",
            "3.7.0-beta2",
            "3.7.0-beta1",
            "3.7.0-alpha1",
            "3.6.3",
            "3.6.3-rc3",
            "3.6.3-rc2",
            "3.6.3-rc1",
            "3.6.2",
            "3.6.1",
            "3.6.1-rc2",
            "3.6.1-rc1",
            "3.6.0",
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            "3.6.0-beta1",
            "3.6.0-alpha",
            "3.5.1",
            "3.5.1-rc2",
            "3.5.1-rc",
            "3.5.0",
            "3.5.0-rc4",
            "3.5.0-rc2",
            "3.5.0-rc",
            "3.5.0-beta5",
            "3.5.0-beta4",
            "3.5.0-beta3",
            "3.5.0-beta2",
            "3.4.5",
            "3.5.0-beta",
            "3.4.4",
            "3.4.4-rc2",
            "3.4.4-rc",
            "3.4.3",
            "3.4.2",
            "3.4.2-rc",
            "3.4.1",
            "3.4.1-rc2",
            "3.4.1-rc",
            "3.4.0",
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            "3.4.0-beta3",
            "3.4.0-beta2",
            "3.4.0-beta1",
            "3.2.4",
            "3.3.0",
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            "3.0.3",
            "3.1.0_beta5",
            "3.1.0_beta4",
            "3.1.0_beta3",
            "3.1.0_beta2",
            "3.1.0_beta1",
            "3.0.1",
            "3.0.0",
            "3.0.0_beta1",
            "3.0.0_alpha-2",
            "3.0.0_alpha-1",
            "2.5.6",
            "2.5.5",
            "2.5.4",
            "2.5.1",
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            "1.7.3"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12711.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.779181884Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-module"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-12711",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440094,
  "published_at": "2018-06-26T19:29:00.25+00:00"
}