National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6299
Original release date:02/26/2009
Last revised:08/13/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! 1.5.7 and earlier allow remote authenticated users with certain privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the title and description parameters to the com_weblinks module and (2) unspecified vectors in the com_content module related to "article submission."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/284-20081102-core-comweblinks-xss-vulnerability.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/283-20081101-core-comcontent-xss-vulnerability.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: weblinks-title-description-xss(46523)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3104
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 32263
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5219-joomla-158-released.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32622
Type: Advisory