01 Record
CVE-2020-10242
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.16. Inadequate handling of CSS selectors in the Protostar and Beez3 JavaScript allows XSS attacks.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.16. Inadequate handling of CSS selectors in the Protostar and Beez3 JavaScript allows XSS attacks.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.01% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 62.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-03-16 15:48Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 10:58Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-03-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- fbb3d014262b0ffd113433d6cac1f2b00850ecc80df3630a2b39a61023d15613
05 Affected products
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