CVE-2008-5790: Recly Competitions

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 36.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in the Recly!Competitions (com_competitions) component 1.0 for Joomla! allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the (1) GLOBALS[mosConfig_absolute_path] parameter to (a) add.php and (b) competitions.php in includes/competitions/, and the (2) mosConfig_absolute_path parameter to (c) includes/settings/settings.php.

Affected products

• Recly Competitions: version 1.0 only

Published 2008-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.