CVE-2014-3863 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the JChatSocial component before 2.3 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename parameter in a file upload in an active JChat chat window

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MEDIUM

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the JChatSocial component before 2.3 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename parameter in a file upload in an active JChat chat window

Published Oct 20, 2014

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.92%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the JChatSocial component before 2.3 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename parameter in a file upload in an active JChat chat window.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.92% 0.01915

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01915

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.92% (0.01915)	79.10th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.92% (0.01915)	77.10th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.36% (0.00359)	55.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.19% (0.00192)	58.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 24, 2024	0.19% (0.00192)	57.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00192)	55.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127372/Joomla-JChatSocial-2.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532662/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68424
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127372/Joomla-JChatSocial-2.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532662/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68424		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 20, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 25, 2014

Link CVE-2014-3863

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-3863

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-3863