CVE-2011-4804

medium

Published 2011-12-14 · 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 obSuggest (com_obsuggest) component before 1.8 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary 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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-36598 webapps php verified

the_cyber_nuxbie · 2012-01-21

Joomla! Component com_kp - 'Controller' Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
foobla	com_obsuggest	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.4"}`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.0.1`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.1.1.20090922`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.1.2`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.1.4`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.1.5`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.1.6`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.5.1.7`
foobla	com_obsuggest	`1.6.1`
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.