The K2 article gallery upload path accepts a zip/tar archive, extracts it under /media/k2/galleries/<id>/, and only renames image files (gif/jpg/jpeg/png/webp) to safe names — non-image files (including .php) are extracted as-is and remain executable via direct HTTP access.

A Joomla user with K2 "create item" rights (Author tier by default) can submit an article whose embedVideo POST field contains a raw <script> tag; K2 stores it verbatim and renders it unescaped to any visitor of the article page.

The K2 frontend item.checkin task accepts an unauthenticated sigProFolder query parameter and uses it directly to address a JFolder::delete() call under /media/k2/galleries/

The K2 frontend article-attachment upload path accepts files whose extension is .php, and Apache's standard modphp matches \.php$ and executes them under the K2 web user. A K2 Author can upload a shell.php, then fetch /media/k2/attachments/shell.php and execute arbitrary PHP code in the web server's context.

The K2 frontend article-save handler accepts an attachment[N][existing] POST field that is concatenated with JPATHSITE/ and passed to JFile::copy(). JPath::clean does NOT strip .., and there is no allow-list of source paths. An Author can therefore copy configuration.php (or any other file readable by the web user — including ../../../etc/passwd) into /media/k2/attachments/, then retrieve the contents via the K2 attachment-download endpoint.

K2 ≤ 2.26 renders the #k2users.image column directly into HTML src attributes via two distinct templates, in both cases without HTML escaping.

K2 ≤ 2.24 contains a mass-assignment defect in the K2 system user plugin plguserk2. A Registered Joomla user, by including the field K2UserForm=1 in a standard comusers profile.save POST, can write arbitrary values into the notes, image, and plugins columns of their own row in the #k2users table — none of which are exposed by the K2 frontend profile-edit form.

class.upload.php in verot.net class.upload through 1.0.3 and 2.x through 2.0.4, as used in the K2 extension for Joomla! and other products, omits .pht from the set of dangerous file extensions, a similar issue to CVE-2019-19576.

class.upload.php in verot.net class.upload before 1.0.3 and 2.x before 2.0.4, as used in the K2 extension for Joomla! and other products, omits .phar from the set of dangerous file extensions.

DISPUTED The K2 component 2.8.0 for Joomla! has Incorrect Access Control with directory traversal, allowing an attacker to download arbitrary files, as demonstrated by a view=media&task=connector&cmd=file&target=l1../configuration.php&download=1 request. The specific pathname ../configuration.php should be base64 encoded for a valid attack. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue because only files under the media-manager path can be downloaded, and the documentation indicates that sensitive information does not belong there. Nonetheless, 2.8.1 has additional blocking of .php downloads.

Directory traversal vulnerability in includes/download.php in the JoomlaWorks AllVideos (JwallVideos) plugin 3.0 through 3.2 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ./../.../ (modified dot dot) in the file parameter.

SQL injection vulnerability in the K2 (comk2) component 1.0.1 Beta and earlier for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the category parameter in an itemlist action to index.php.