CVE-2006-3969

HIGH 7.5CVE-2006-3969 · Published 01/08/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-3969 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting colophon (joomla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
colophon joomla	`≤ 1.2`	No fix yet

Description

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in administrator/components/com_colophon/admin.colophon.php in Colophon 1.2 and earlier for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the mosConfig_absolute_path parameter.

References

secunia.com/advisories/21288 · Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/27659
securityfocus.com/bid/19252 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3057
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28076
exploit-db.com/exploits/2085

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