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CVE-2008-5790

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 23.62% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-12-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2008-5790
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
23.62%

Original NVD Description

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.