Developer Network™ Security Announcements
This feed provides announcements of resolved security issues in Joomla! software releases.
For more information about the Joomla! Security Strike Team (JSST) and its processes, please review our Security article.
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- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.7.3 and all earlier 1.7 and 1.6 versions
- Exploit type: XSS Vulnerability
- Reported Date: 2011-November-16
- Fixed Date: 2012-January-24
Description
Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.3 and all earlier versions
Solution
Upgrade to version 1.7.4 or 2.5.0 or higher
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.7.3 and all earlier 1.7 and 1.6 versions
- Exploit type: Information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2011-December-19
- Fixed Date: 2012-January-24
Description
Inadequate filtering leads to information disclosure.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.3 and all earlier versions
Solution
Upgrade to version 1.7.4 or 2.5.0 or higher
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.7.3 and all earlier versions
- Exploit type: XSS Vulnerability
- Reported Date: 2012-January-22
- Fixed Date: 2012-January-24
Description
Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.3 and all earlier 1.7 and 1.6 versions
Solution
Upgrade to version 1.7.4 or 2.5.0 or higher
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.7.2 and all 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2011-October-21
- Fixed Date: 2011-November-14
Description
Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in back end.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.2 and all earlier 1.7.x and 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.3 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: High
- Versions: 1.7.2 and all 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: Password Change
- Reported Date: 2011-October-28
- Fixed Date: 2011-November-14
Description
Weak random number generation during password reset leads to possibility of changing a user's password.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.2 and all earlier 1.7.x and 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.3 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: High
- Versions: 1.5.24 and all earlier 1.5 versions
- Exploit type: Password Change
- Reported Date: 2011-October-28
- Fixed Date: 2011-November-14
Description
Weak random number generation during password reset leads to possibility of changing a user's password.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.5.24 and all earlier 1.5 versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! 1.5 version (1.5.25 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.7.1
- Exploit type: Information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2011-September-09
- Fixed Date: 2011-October-17
Description
Weak encryption causes potential information disclosure.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.1 and earlier
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.2 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.7.1
- Exploit type: Information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2011-August-02
- Fixed Date: 2011-October-17
Description
Inadequate error checking causes potential information disclosure.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.1 and earlier
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.2 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.23 and earlier
- Exploit type: Information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2011-September-09
- Fixed Date: 2011-October-17
Description
Weak encryption causes potential information disclosure.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.5.23 and earlier
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.24 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.7.0
- Exploit type: Information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2011-September-23
- Fixed Date: 2011-September-26
Description
Inadequate error checking causes information disclosure.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.0
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.1 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.7.0 and all 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2011-August-02
- Fixed Date: 2011-September-22
Description
Inadequate escaping leads to XSS vulnerability in com_search.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.0 and all 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.1 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.7.0 and all 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2011-August-02
- Fixed Date: 2011-September-22
Description
Inadequate escaping leads to XSS vulnerability in back end.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.7.0 and all 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.7.1 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.6.5 and all earlier 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2011-July-11
- Fixed Date: 2011-July-19
Description
Inadequate escaping leads to XSS vulnerability.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.6.5 and all earlier 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.6.6 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.6.3 and all earlier 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: Information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2011-May-25
- Fixed Date: 2011-June-23
Description
Inadequate filtering causes possible information disclosure.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.6.3 and all earlier 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.6.4 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.6.3 and all earlier 1.6.x versions
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2011-May-25
- Fixed Date: 2011-June-27
Description
Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability.
Affected Installs
Joomla! version 1.6.3 and all earlier 1.6.x versions
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.6.4 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.5.15 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Unauthorised Access
- Reported Date: 2010-Jan-07
- Fixed Date: 2010-Apr-23
Description
When a user requests a password reset, the reset tokens were stored in plain text in the database. While this is not a vulnerability in itself, it allows user accounts to be compromised if there is an extension on the site with an SQL injection vulnerability.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.15 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.16 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.15 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Session fixation
- Reported Date: 2010-Mar-25
- Fixed Date: 2010-Apr-23
Description
Session id doesn't get modified when user logs in. A remote site may be able to forward a visitor to the Joomla! site and set a specific cookie. If the user then logs in, the remote site can use that cookie to authenticate as that user.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.15 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.16 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.5.15 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Code upload
- Reported Date: 2009-Dec-30
- Fixed Date: 2010-Apr-23
Description
The migration script in the Joomla! installer does not check the file type being uploaded. If the installation application is present, an attacker could use it to upload malicious files to a server.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.15 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.16 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.15 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: information Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2010-Feb-21
- Fixed Date: 2010-Apr-23
Description
If a user entered a URL with a negative query limit or offset, a PHP notice would display revealing information about the system.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.15 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.16 or later)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.5.14 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Extension Version Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2009-October-13
- Fixed Date: 2009-Nov-03
Description
It is possible to read the contents of an extension's XML file and find the version number of the installed extension. This could allow people to exploit a known security flaws for a specific version of an extension.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.14 are affected.
Solution
Turn on Apache mod_rewrite and configure your .htaccess file to filter out XML files. In the htaccess.txt file shipped with version 1.5.15, lines 35-39 contain example code that will deny access to XML files. You can incorporate this code (or similar code) into your .htaccess file. Be sure to test that it does not cause problems on your site.
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: com_content
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.14 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Front-End Editing
- Reported Date: 2009-September-05
- Fixed Date: 2009-November-03
Description
When logged into the front end with Author access, it was possible to replace an article written by another user.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.14 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.15 or newer).
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: Framework
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.12 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Path Disclosure
- Reported Date: 2009-July-21
- Fixed Date: 2009-July-22
Description
Some files were missing the check for JEXEC. These scripts will then expose internal path information of the host.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.12 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.13 or newer).
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: com_mailto
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.5.13 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Email
- Reported Date: 2009-July-28
- Fixed Date: 2009-July-30
Description
In com_mailto, it was possible to bypass timeout protection against sending automated emails.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.13 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.14 or newer).
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: TinyMCE editor
- Severity: Critical
- Versions: 1.5.12
- Exploit type: Image File upload
- Reported Date: 2009-July-22
- Fixed Date: 2009-July-22
Description
Tiny browser included with TinyMCE 3.0 editor allowed files to be uploaded and removed without logging in.
Affected Installs
Version 1.5.12 only
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.13 or newer).
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: Site client
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.11 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2009-June-30
- Fixed Date: 2009-June-30
Description
An attacker can inject JavaScript or DHTML code that will be executed in the context of targeted user browser, allowing the attacker to steal cookies. HTTP_REFERER variable is not properly parsed.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.11 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.12 or newer).
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.