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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:20:00 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>, advisories@...itunasecurity.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3

On 11/21/2011 11:01 AM, Henri Salo wrote:
> Can we get CVE-identifier assigned for this issue, thank you?
>
> Best regards,
> Henri Salo
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Netsparker Advisories <advisories@...itunasecurity.com> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:32:12 +0200
> From: Netsparker Advisories <advisories@...itunasecurity.com>
> To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3
>
> Information
> --------------------
> Name :  XSS vulnerability in Joomla 1.6.3.
> Software :  All 1.6.x installs prior to and including 1.6.3 are affected.
> Vendor Hompeage :  http://www.joomla.org
> Vulnerability Type :  Cross-Site Scripting
> Severity :  High
> Researcher :  Mesut Timur <mesut [at] mavitunasecurity [dot] com>
> Advisory Reference :  NS-11-009
>
> Description
> ------------------
> Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which
> enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many
> aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla
> the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is
> an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
>
> Details
> -------------------
> Joomla is affected by a XSS vulnerability in various administrator
> screens. All 1.6.x installs prior to and including 1.6.3 are affected.
> You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting
> vulnerabilities from here :
> http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/
>
> Solution
> -------------------
> Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.6.4 or later).
>
> Credits
> -------------------
> It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application
> Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/
>
> References
> -------------------
> 1. Vendor URL: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/349-20110601-xss-vulnerabilities.html
> 2. MSL Advisory Link :
> http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerability-in-joomla-163/
> 3. Netsparker Advisories :
> http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/
>
> About Netsparker
> -------------------
> Netsparker® can find and report security issues such as SQL Injection
> and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all web applications regardless of
> the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker's unique
> detection and exploitation techniques allows it to be dead accurate in
> reporting hence it's the first and the only False Positive Free web
> application security scanner.
>
Can you confirm that this is a different issue from CVE-2011-2708 and
CVE-2011-3595?

-- 

-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team

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