VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1983

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 redTWITTER (com_redtwitter) component 1.0.x including 1.0b11 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the view 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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12055 webapps php verified
NoGe · 2010-04-04

Joomla! Component redTWITTER 1.0 - Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redcomponentcom_redtwitter1.0b8
redcomponentcom_redtwitter1.0b9
redcomponentcom_redtwitter1.0b9.1
redcomponentcom_redtwitter1.0b10
redcomponentcom_redtwitter1.0b11
redcomponentcom_redtwitter1.0b94.2
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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.