CVE-2018-12711

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.

• CWE-79

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-moduleVendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104565Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041244Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/740-20180602-core-xss-vulnerability-in-language-switcher-moduleVendor Advisory

Published

Jun 26, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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