This morning the Joomla development team released a new version of the Joomla platform. This is a Security release, so please be sure to update if you’re on the 2.x branch. If you’re on the 1.x branch the odds of updating seamlessly is highly unlikely so please do so only if you’re engaging a developer to assist you.
This release address 7 security issues, all of them appear to be low to moderate and revolve around Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Denial of Service (DOS) and Privilege Escalation. It also contains another 38 bug fixes.
Security Fixes include:
- [20130403] – Core – XSS Vulnerability
- [20130406] – Core – DOS Vulnerability
- [20130405] – Core XSS Vulnerability
- [20130402] – Core – Information Disclosure
- [20130404] – Core – XSS Vulnerability
- [20120401] – Core – Privilege Escalation
- [20130407] – Core – XSS Vulnerability
If you can, please be sure to update, you can get your latest releases off the Joomla website here.
Sucuri Malware Research Team
Denis Sinegubko
Northon Torga
Daniel Cid
Celise Davison
Luke Leal
Josh Hammer
Justin Channell
2 comments
Wow! that’s is good news for web service provider who is dealing in Joomla development services:)
Security is the top concern of users, which is a great information. Thank
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