Path Traversal in Joomla

CVE-2009-0113

Directory traversal vulnerability in attachmentlibrary.php in the XStandard component for Joomla! 1.5.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the X_CMS_LIBRARY_PATH HTTP header.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2009-01-09 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.066 (93.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.066 · newest: 0.066 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Joomla — versions 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1
Joomla Xstandard

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/33143 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
securityreason.com/securityalert/4896 (third-party-advisory)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7691 (exploit)
secunia.com/advisories/33377 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)