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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2009-1496

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Cmi Marketplace (com_cmimarketplace) component 0.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories via a ..

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 7.18%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 7.2%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Cmi Marketplace (com_cmimarketplace) component 0.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the viewit parameter to index.php.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS
7.18% probability · 94th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 8 April 2009
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
ijobid/com cmimarketplace
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%26 October 2026: 7.18%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 7.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-8367source ↗Joomla! Component Cmimarketplace - 'viewit' Directory Traversalphp · H!tm@Nwebapps8 April 2009yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.