Joomla JCE Component Security Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
28 May. 2012
Summary
JCE Comment component for Joomla! is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability and a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
Vendor Status:
Joomla JCE had issued an update for this vulnerability