{"id":"CVE-2020-13761","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-13761","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:33:48.534Z","title":"In Joomla! before 3.9.19, lack of input validation in the heading tag option of the \"Articles - Newsflash\" and \"Articles - Categories\" modules allows XSS.","description":"In Joomla! before 3.9.19, lack of input validation in the heading tag option of the \"Articles - Newsflash\" and \"Articles - Categories\" modules allows XSS.","published":"2020-06-02T20:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:53:37.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["joomla/joomla\\!"],"epss":{"score":0.01011,"percentile":0.62912,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.01%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/813-20200601-core-xss-in-modules-heading-tag-option","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/813-20200601-core-xss-in-modules-heading-tag-option","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13761","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}