Joomla Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-2710 - Vulnerability Database

Joomla Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-2710

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-2710
Title: Joomla Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability
Overview:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla before 1.7.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the URI to includes/application.php reachable through index.php and when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used (2) allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchword parameter in a search action to index.php in the com_search component. NOTE: vector 2 exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-2509.5.