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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2006-4476

High
7.5/10

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.0.11, related to "Injection Flaws," allow attackers to have an unknown impact via (1) globals.php, which uses include_once() instead of require(); (2) the $options variable; (3) Admin Upload Image; (4) ->load(); (5) content submissions when frontpage is selected; (6) the mosPageNav constructor; (7) saveOrder functions; (8) the absence of "exploit blocking rules" in htaccess; and (9) the ACL.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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