Vigil@nce - Joomla HDVideoShare: directory traversal
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of Joomla HDVideoShare, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: Joomla Extensions not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 25/06/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The HDVideoShare 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
HDVideoShare, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Joomla-HDVideoShare-directory-traversal-17239