CVE-2010-0467

medium
Published 2010-02-02 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
5.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the ccNewsletter (com_ccnewsletter) component 1.0.5 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter in a ccnewsletter action to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
68%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-11277 webapps php verified
B-HUNT3|2 ยท 2010-01-28

Joomla! Component CCNewsLetter - Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-11282 webapps php verified
AtT4CKxT3rR0r1ST ยท 2010-01-28

Joomla! Component CCNewsLetter - Local File Inclusion

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
chillcreationscom_ccnewsletter1.0.5
joomla joomlajoomla\!

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.