Secunia Security Advisory - Matdhule has reported a vulnerability in the Community Builder component for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Joomla Community Builder Component File Inclusion
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21636
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21636/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Community Builder 1.x (component for Joomla)
http://secunia.com/product/11706/
DESCRIPTION:
Matdhule has reported a vulnerability in the Community Builder
component for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system.
Input passed to the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter in
administrator/components/com_comprofiler/plugin.class.php isn't
properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be
exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local
resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.0 RC 2 and 1.0.
Prior versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.1.
http://www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,46/Itemid,36/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Matdhule
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