Summary
CVE-2026-76606 is a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) in the Fabrik extension for Joomla, triggered through the extension’s image element. The flaw affects all Fabrik releases from 1.0.0 up to but not including 4.7.3 and carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 10.0 (Critical), reflecting network exploitability with no authentication or user interaction required.
Technical details
- Root cause: Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory (CWE-22) in Fabrik’s image element handling.
- Trigger conditions: Exploitable by supplying crafted input to the image element functionality, allowing traversal outside the intended directory scope.
- Attack vector: Network-based, requiring no privileges and no user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N).
- Impact: High impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the underlying system (VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H per the published vector), consistent with unauthorized access to restricted directories/files on the host.
Affected software
- Fabrik extension for Joomla (fabrikar.com), versions 1.0.0 through versions prior to 4.7.3.
Severity
- CVSS v4.0 Base Score: 10.0 (Critical)
- Vector:
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Mitigation and recommended actions
- Immediate: Upgrade Fabrik to version 4.7.3 or later, which addresses this path traversal issue.
- If immediate patching is not possible: Restrict or disable public access to the Fabrik image element functionality at the web server or WAF layer, and monitor for anomalous requests containing directory traversal sequences (e.g.,
../) targeting Fabrik/com_fabrik endpoints until the update can be applied.

