CVE-2013-1453

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

plugins/system/highlight/highlight.php in Joomla! 3.0.x through 3.0.2 and 2.5.x through 2.5.8 allows attackers to unserialize arbitrary PHP objects to obtain sensitive information, delete arbitrary directories, conduct SQL injection attacks, and possibly have other impacts via the highlight parameter. Note: it was originally reported that this issue only allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information, but later analysis demonstrated that other attacks exist.

plugins/system/highlight/highlight.php in Joomla! 3.0.x through 3.0.2 and 2.5.x through 2.5.8 allows attackers to unserialize arbitrary PHP objects to obtain sensitive information, delete arbitrary directories, conduct SQL injection attacks, and possibly have other impacts via the highlight parameter. Note: it was originally reported that this issue only allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information, but later analysis demonstrated that other attacks exist.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Joomla!

First reported 12 years ago

2013-02-13 01:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

Joomla! 2.5.0

2.5.0

Joomla! 2.5.1

2.5.1

Joomla! 2.5.2

2.5.2

Joomla! 2.5.3

2.5.3

Joomla! 2.5.4

2.5.4

Joomla! 2.5.5

2.5.5

Joomla! 2.5.6

2.5.6

Joomla! 2.5.7

2.5.7

Joomla! 2.5.8

2.5.8

Joomla! 3.0.0

3.0.0

Joomla! 3.0.1

3.0.1

Joomla! 3.0.2

3.0.2

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