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AIKIDO-2025-10671

joomla/filter is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation

Improper Input ValidationCVE-2025-54476 Published Oct 8, 2025

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High Risk

This Affects:

PHPjoomla/filter
2.0.0 - 2.0.5
Fixed in 2.0.6
3.0.0 - 3.0.4
Fixed in 3.0.5
4.0.0 - 4.0.0
Fixed in 4.0.1
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to improper input validation in the checkAttribute function. This validation can be easily bypassed because attackers have various ways to execute scripts without relying on well-known evasion characters. For example, an attacker can inject event handlers like onclick or onmouseover without any whitespace (e.g., <img/src=x onerror=alert(1)>). They may also use alternative encoding methods, such as HTML entities, or exploit other HTML elements and attributes that are not properly sanitized. As a result, attackers can execute malicious JavaScript in the victim's browser.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

joomla/filter is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation in versions 2.0.0 - 2.0.5, 3.0.0 - 3.0.4 and 4.0.0 - 4.0.0.

How to fix this

Upgrade the joomla/filter library to the patch version.