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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-5790 EUVD-2008-5760GHSA-p9r7-xj7p-2mw2

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in the Recly!Competitions (com_competitions) component 1.0 for Joomla! allow remote atta…

Published Dec 31, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in the Recly!Competitions (com_competitions) component 1.0 for Joomla! allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the (1) GLOBALS[mosConfig_absolute_path] parameter to (a) add.php and (b) competitions.php in includes/competitions/, and the (2) mosConfig_absolute_path parameter to (c) includes/settings/settings.php.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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