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CVE-2020-9364

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-03-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered in helpers/mailer.php in the Creative Contact Form extension 4.6.2 before 2019-12-03 for Joomla!. A directory traversal vulnerability resides in the filename field for uploaded attachments via the creativecontactform_upload parameter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability with the "Send me a copy" option to receive any files of the filesystem via email.

Affected products

• Creative-Solutions Creative Contact Form: 4.6.2

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156655/Creative-Contact-Form-4.6.2-Directory-Traversal.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/13
• https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/creative-contact-form/
• https://www.ait.ac.at/themen/cyber-security/pentesting/security-advisories/ait-sa-20200301-01/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156655/Creative-Contact-Form-4.6.2-Directory-Traversal.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/13
• https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/creative-contact-form/
• https://www.ait.ac.at/themen/cyber-security/pentesting/security-advisories/ait-sa-20200301-01/

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