CVE-2015-4074

high
Published 2017-09-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Helpdesk Pro plugin before 1.4.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter in a ticket.download_attachment task.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
helpdesk_pro_projecthelpdesk_pro{"endIncluding":"1.3.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.