Starting with version 1.5.8, as a security measure a default filtering rule for custom code content was implemented to prevent possible XSS attacks. As a consequence, if you are using certain HTML tags or JavaScript code into the published articles, the resulting browser output could not be always the expected result because of the default Blacklist filter. (related article: Security Release: Joomla! 1.5.9 Is Ready For Free Download)

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As compared with the previous versions from 1.0.x series of the popular content management system Joomla!, the mechanism of addition of static web pages into a website built on the version 1.5.x is different. Now, the static content items are defined as uncategorized articles, while the content items as articles which are included into various categories.

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Recently, a new version of Joomla! content management system was released: Joomla! 1.5.8 [Wohnaiki]. In this release two security issues were fixed, as well as several bugs.

The default filtering for content ( the defaults on com_content article submission) was a security problem which allowed the existence of XSS vulnerabilities through the entry of dangerous HTML tags or scripts, affecting users with access level of author type or higher, if they have not set in com_content configuration the filtering options. (more…)

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A new Joomla! version (1.5.5) was released on 28 July 2008. This widely used content management system and development framework shows new features and many bugs fixes in the version 1.5.5. The major error of duplicate titles that affected the content view in version 1.5.4 was solved in this new Joomla! release. (more…)

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