Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-2739CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-07-11

Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in PcCookBook (component for Joomla!), which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "pccookbook.php" script that fails to validate the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious files and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products
PcCookBook (component for Joomla!) version 1.3.1 and prior