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CVE-2010-1473

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1473 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in the Advertising (com_advertising) component 0.25 for Joomla!, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8 (medium severity), indicating it can be exploited over the network with medium complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:johnmccollum:com_advertising:0.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2010-1473 · Sep 5, 2021
ExploitDB: EDB-12171 · Apr 12, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0816 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.org / 1004-exploits/joomlaeasyadbanner-lfi.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/39410
Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/12171
Exploit