CVE-2010-1081

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Community Polls (com_communitypolls) component 1.5.2, and possibly earlier, for Core Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Affected products

Corejoomla Com Communitypolls: through 1.5.2; 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+5)

References

http://osvdb.org/62506
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1002-exploits/joomlacp-lfi.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/38692
http://www.corejoomla.com/component/content/article/1-corejoomla-updates/40-community-polls-v153-security-release.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38330
http://osvdb.org/62506
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1002-exploits/joomlacp-lfi.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/38692
http://www.corejoomla.com/component/content/article/1-corejoomla-updates/40-community-polls-v153-security-release.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38330

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