CVE-2010-2259

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-06-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the BF Survey (com_bfsurvey) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Affected products

Tamlyncreative Com Bfsurvey Basic: through 1.1
Tamlyncreative Com Bfsurvey Pro: through 1.3.0
Tamlyncreative Com Bfsurvey Profree: 1.2.6

References

http://osvdb.org/61438
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlabfsurvey-lfi.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/37866
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10946
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37584
http://www.tamlyncreative.com.au/software/forum/index.php?topic=641.0
http://osvdb.org/61438
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlabfsurvey-lfi.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/37866
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10946
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37584
http://www.tamlyncreative.com.au/software/forum/index.php?topic=641.0

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