CVE-2015-4075

Helpdesk Pro vulnerability

CVSS

8.1

EPSS

7.4%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

The Helpdesk Pro plugin before 1.4.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary .ini files via a crafted language.save task.

Affected vendor

Helpdeskpro

Affected product

Helpdesk Pro

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-74 — Injection

Published

2017-09-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-4075

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-4075.
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