CVE-2010-2033

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Directory traversal vulnerability in the Percha Multicategory Article (com_perchacategoriestree) component 0.6 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have unspecified other impact via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Published: 2010-05-25 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-2033 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.43%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2010-2033

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
34008 exploit_db edb 2010-05-19 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-2033

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-09 1.73% 1.43% -0.29%
2 2026-02-10 1.38% 1.73% +0.35%
3 2025-12-13 1.38%

Full EPSS history (25 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-2033

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-2033

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-2033

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
percha com_perchacategoriestree 0.6 cpe:2.3:a:percha:com_perchacategoriestree:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-2033

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