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CVE-2008-6653

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in webhosting.php in the Webhosting Component (com_webhosting) module before 1.1 RC7 for Joomla! and Mambo allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the catid parameter to index.php.

Affected products

• Wh-Com Com Webhosting: through 1.1; 0.5-beta, 0.5.3-beta, 0.5.4-beta, 0.5.5-beta, 0.5.6-beta, 1.0-stable (+8)

References

• http://forum.wh-com.de/index.php?topic=497.0
• http://osvdb.org/50423
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29000
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42124
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5527
• http://forum.wh-com.de/index.php?topic=497.0
• http://osvdb.org/50423
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29000
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42124
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5527

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