A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Joomla CMS (Content Management System). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the file html/modules.php of the component ja_purity template. The manipulation of the argument Mod* as part of a Parameter leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the ja_purity template for Joomla! 1.5.26 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Mod* cookie parameter to html/modules.php.

The bug was discovered 05/03/2012. The weakness was disclosed 05/03/2012 by Janek Vind as confirmed posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-2413 since 04/23/2012. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:html/modules.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 12867 (Joomla! ja_purity Template Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 53382†) and OSVDB (87744†). The entry VDB-144129 is pretty similar.

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• Content Management System

Vendor

• Joomla

Name

• CMS

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.5.13
• 1.5.14
• 1.5.15
• 1.5.16
• 1.5.17
• 1.5.18
• 1.5.19
• 1.5.20
• 1.5.21
• 1.5.22
• 1.5.23
• 1.5.24
• 1.5.25
• 1.5.26

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• open-source

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