CVE-2025-54476 (GCVE-0-2025-54476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-30 16:02
Modified
2025-10-01 04:34
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
Improper handling of input could lead to an XSS vector in the checkAttribute method of the input filter framework class.
References
security@joomla.orghttps://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/1010-20250901-core-inadequate-content-filtering-within-the-checkattribute-filter-code.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS Version: 3.0.0-3.10.20
Version: 4.0.0-4.4.13
Version: 5.0.0-5.3.3
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