Medium severity · published Mar 4, 2020
CVE-2020-9364
An issue was discovered in helpers/mailer.php in the Creative Contact Form extension 4.6.2 before 2019-12-03 for Joomla!
5.3
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in helpers/mailer.php in the Creative Contact Form extension 4.6.2 before 2019-12-03 for Joomla!. A directory traversal vulnerability resides in the filename field for uploaded attachments via the creativecontactform_upload parameter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability with the "Send me a copy" option to receive any files of the filesystem via email.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CC
Creative Contact Form · Creative-solutions
4.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9364
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9364
Exploit
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156655/Creative-Contact-Form-4.6.2-Directory-Traversal.html
Exploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/13
Third Party Advisory
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/creative-contact-form/
Exploit
https://www.ait.ac.at/themen/cyber-security/pentesting/security-advisories/ait-sa-20200301-01/
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