CVE-2011-2509: Joomla!

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.6.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the query string to the com_contact component, as demonstrated by the Itemid parameter to index.php; (2) the query string to the com_content component, as demonstrated by the filter_order parameter to index.php; (3) the query string to the com_newsfeeds component, as demonstrated by an arbitrary parameter to index.php; or (4) the option parameter in a reset.request action to index.php; and, when Internet Explorer or Konqueror is used, (5) 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.

Affected products

• Joomla! Joomla!: up to and including 1.6.3; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.4 only; …

Published 2011-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.