Joomla vulnerability can be exploited to hijack sites, so patch now!
If you’re running a website on Joomla, you should update to the newly released 3.6.5 version as soon as possible – or risk your site being hijacked. The newest version of the popular CMS has been released on Tuesday (December 13), and it fixes three vulnerabilities, several bugs, and includes a number of new security…
Many Joomla Sites Hacked via Recently Patched Flaws
Less than 24 hours after Joomla released patches for a couple of critical account creation vulnerabilities, researchers noticed that malicious actors had already started exploiting the flaws in the wild. Joomla announced on October 25 the availability of version 3.6.4 to fix two serious vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-8870, which allows attackers to create user accounts even if…
Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in Joomla
Two critical account creation vulnerabilities have been addressed on Tuesday in the Joomla content management system (CMS) with the release of version 3.6.4. One of the flaws, identified as CVE-2016-8870, allows an attacker to register on a website even if registration has been disabled. The security hole, affecting the Joomla core in versions 3.4.4 through…