CVE-2011-2710 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/357-20110701-xss-vulnerability.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/16/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/27 http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/joomla/core/[joomla_1.7.0-rc]_cross_site_scripting(XSS)