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Joomla! htaccess file disclosure

ID: joomla-htaccess-file

Severity: info

Author: oppsec

Tags: miscellaneous,misc,joomla

Joomla! has an htaccess file to store configurations about HTTP config, directory listing, etc.

id: joomla-htaccess-file
info:
name: Joomla! htaccess file disclosure
author: oppsec
severity: info
description: Joomla! has an htaccess file to store configurations about HTTP config, directory listing, etc.
metadata:
max-request: 1
tags: miscellaneous,misc,joomla
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/htaccess.txt"
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
words:
- "Joomla"
- "Open Source Matters. All rights reserved"
condition: and
- type: word
part: header
words:
- "text/plain"
- type: status
status:
- 200
# digest: 4a0a004730450221008f958d5d7a8a949342ee3d15c8a52ef190ea4cf486601ebe66f5821a107e07cd0220658fb1e0c0f245244fe4895ebbe9da734beb9f46ff07a4f5c42b1d6fd1cf8796:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/miscellaneous/joomla-htaccess.yaml"

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