FreeBSD : joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities (bdccd14b-5aac-11de-a438-003048590f9e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39427

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Secunia reports :

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being used.
This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site when the malicious data is displayed.

Certain unspecified input passed to the user view of the com_users core component is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Input passed via certain parameters to the 'JA_Purity' template is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e94ed320

http://www.nessus.org/u?c3ca0c74

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39427

File Name: freebsd_pkg_bdccd14b5aac11dea438003048590f9e.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 6/17/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:joomla15, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1938, CVE-2009-1939, CVE-2009-1940

CWE: 79

Secunia: 35278