THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-5790
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-5790

Competitions vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
23.6%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Recly
Affected product
Competitions
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 23.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-5790

  • Confirm whether Recly Competitions is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-5790.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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