• Project: Joomla!
• SubProject: CMS
• Severity: High
• Versions: 1.5.0 through 3.4.5
• Exploit type: Remote Code Execution
• Reported Date: 2015-December-13
• Fixed Date: 2015-December-14
• CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-8562

Description

Browser information is not filtered properly while saving the session values into the database which leads to a Remote Code Execution vulnerability.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 1.5.0 through 3.4.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.4.6

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.