Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft malicious URL with XSS payload
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DeliveryLure victim to click link
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ExploitPayload reflected without sanitization
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ExecutionScript executes in victim browser
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ImpactSession hijack or UI actions as victim
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a victim to interact - typically by clicking or loading an attacker-supplied URL containing the XSS payload - against a Joomla site running the StageIt extension in affected versions 1.0 through 5.7.5 or 6.0 through 6.3.5. No authentication or privileges are needed on the attacker side (PR:N), but the mandatory user interaction (UI:P) is the key limiting factor: without a lured victim the payload cannot execute. The specific vulnerable parameter or page component is not described in the available sources. Impact is confined to the victim's browser session (no subsequent-system impact). |
| Impact | This is a reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) in the StageIt Joomla extension, rated moderate (CVSS 5.3). The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated attack that nonetheless REQUIRES user interaction (UI:P) - a victim must click or load an attacker-crafted link - which is the single biggest limiter on real-world risk and is typical of reflected XSS. Impact is limited to low confidentiality and low integrity within the victim's browser context; there is no availability impact and no system-level compromise. No EPSS score was provided, the CVE is NOT on the CISA KEV list, and no public exploit code is referenced (the only reference is a vendor changelog, not a PoC). The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', signalling a routine remediation priority rather than an emergency. Overall this is a genuine but not urgent issue: real risk hinges on social-engineering a user into following a malicious link, so it is lower real-world risk than its network/unauthenticated metrics alone might suggest. Note: no vendor advisory text or exact fixed version was supplied, so the precise remediation build is not confirmed from available data. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a URL for a vulnerable StageIt page with malicious JavaScript in a reflected parameter and lures a Joomla site visitor or administrator into clicking it. When the victim loads the link, the unsanitized input is reflected into the page and the script executes in the victim's browser session, potentially stealing session cookies or performing actions as that user. No public exploit code is referenced at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Nov 02, 2026
Reflected cross-site scripting in the StageIt extension for Joomla (php-web-design.com) affects versions 1.0 through 5.7.5 and 6.0 through 6.3.5, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to have script execute in a victim's browser when the victim loads a crafted URL; the issue is rated CVSS 5.3 (moderate). Exploitation requires user interaction (UI:P) and impact is limited to the victim's browser session, and no public exploit or CISA KEV entry is identified at time of analysis; the vuln.today decision label is this_month.
RemediationAI
The provided data does not explicitly list a fixed version; the available vendor reference is the StageIt 6 changelog at https://www.php-web-design.com/Information/stageit-6-changelog.html, which should be reviewed to identify the first patched release. Because the stated affected ranges are 1.0-5.7.5 and 6.0-6.3.5, upgrade to a release outside those ranges once the changelog confirms it on the relevant 5.x or 6.x branch. If an update cannot be applied immediately, the source does not document a targeted workaround; disabling or unpublishing the StageIt extension removes the exposed attack surface at the cost of its functionality, and any interim XSS filtering or WAF rule would be a compensating control that is not described by the vendor and does not replace the fixed release.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The StageIt extension is a third-party component for the Joomla CMS, identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:php-web-design.com:stageit_extension_for_joomla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. The root cause class is CWE-79 (cross-site scripting): in a reflected XSS pattern, attacker-supplied request input is echoed into an HTML response without adequate output encoding, so a crafted link can cause script to run in the context of the Joomla site when a victim follows it. The specific vulnerable parameter, page, or request component is not described in the available sources, so the exact trigger beyond victim interaction is unverified. The CVSS 4.0 vector AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N describes network reachability, no attacker privileges, required victim interaction, and low confidentiality/integrity impact with no subsequent-system impact. The independent CVSS 3.1 assessment (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) similarly treats it as a scope-changed XSS with limited browser-session impact and no availability impact.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Reflected XSS is remotely delivered with no privileges but needs victim interaction (UI:R); it executes in the browser so scope changes (S:C) with low C/I impact and no availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (Joomla).
CVSS VectorVendor: Joomla
DescriptionCVE.org
Joomla Extension - php-web-design.com - Reflected XSS in StageIt 1.0-5.7.5, 6.0-6.3.5
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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