CVE-2018-25330 (GCVE-0-2018-25330)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-17 12:11 – Updated: 2026-05-18 20:07
VLAI?
Title
Joomla! EkRishta 2.10 Persistent XSS and SQL Injection
Summary
Joomla! extension EkRishta 2.10 contains persistent cross-site scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities that allow attackers to inject malicious code through profile fields and POST parameters. Attackers can inject script payloads in profile information fields like Address that execute when users visit the profile, or submit SQL injection payloads via the phone_no parameter to the user_setting endpoint to manipulate database queries.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public ?
2018-05-18 00:00
Credits
Sina Kheirkhah || (Sina.For.Sec@gmail.com)
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