CVE-2012-2901: Ryan Demmer Joomla Content Editor

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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Profile List in the Joomla Content Editor (JCE) component before 2.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search parameter to administrator/index.php.

Affected products

• Ryan Demmer Joomla Content Editor: up to and including 2.0.21; version 2.0 only

Published 2012-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.