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Joomla Account Creation and Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Oct 25, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module creates an arbitrary account with administrative privileges in Joomla versions 3.4.4
through 3.6.3. If an email server is configured in Joomla, an email will be sent to activate the account (the account is disabled by default).

Authors

Fabio Pires [email protected]
Filipe Reis [email protected]
Vitor Oliveira [email protected]

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/admin/http/joomla_registration_privesc
    msf auxiliary(joomla_registration_privesc) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(joomla_registration_privesc) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(joomla_registration_privesc) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(joomla_registration_privesc) > run
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