peter bassill · operator
$ cve CVE-2010-1494 JSON

CVE-2010-1494 EXPLOIT

5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 16.7% (pctl 97)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the AWDwall (com_awdwall) component 1.5.4 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Scoring

CVSS5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS16.7% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-22
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2010-04-23
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (2)

VendorProduct
awdsolutioncom awdwall
joomlajoomla\!

Public exploits

References

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