CVE-2010-1956: Thefactory Com Gadgetfactory

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Gadget Factory (com_gadgetfactory) component 1.0.0 and 1.5.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Thefactory Com Gadgetfactory: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.5.0 only

Published 2010-05-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.