CVE-2011-2710: Joomla!

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Joomla! Joomla!: up to and including 1.6.6; 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.