CVE-2010-2259

high
Published 2010-06-09 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 BF Survey (com_bfsurvey) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local 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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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-10946 webapps php verified
FL0RiX ยท 2010-01-03

Joomla! Component com_bfsurvey - Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
tamlyncreativecom_bfsurvey_profree1.2.6
joomla joomlajoomla\!
tamlyncreativecom_bfsurvey_pro{"endIncluding":"1.3.0"}
tamlyncreativecom_bfsurvey_basic{"endIncluding":"1.1"}

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.