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CVE-2011-3747

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-09-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Joomla! 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by libraries/phpmailer/language/phpmailer.lang-joomla.php.

Affected products

• Joomla!: 1.6.0

References

• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/joomla-1.6.0
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/joomla-1.6.0
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6

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