peter bassill · operator
$ cve CVE-2008-4764 JSON

CVE-2008-4764 EXPLOIT

5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 16.5% (pctl 97)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the eXtplorer module (com_extplorer) 2.0.0 RC2 and earlier in Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the dir parameter in a show_error action.

Scoring

CVSS5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS16.51% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-22
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2008-10-28
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (2)

VendorProduct
extplorercom extplorer
joomlajoomla\!

Public exploits

References

→ the Explorer  ·  watch your stack  ·  NVD