CVE-2008-6172

EPSS 12.3%

Vexday Risk Score

43Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 12.3%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

19 Feb 2009Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Directory traversal vulnerability in captcha/captcha_image.php in the RWCards (com_rwcards) 3.0.11 component for Joomla!, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the img parameter.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/6817unverified

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References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32367 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46081 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6817 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31892