Vigil@nce - Joomla DVFolderContent: directory traversal
December 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of Joomla DVFolderContent, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: Joomla Extensions not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 03/10/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The DVFolderContent extension can be installed on Joomla.
However, user’s data are directly inserted in an access path.
Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in the upper
directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories of Joomla
DVFolderContent, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Joomla-DVFolderContent-directory-traversal-20751