Security Issues And Bugs Fixed In The New Joomla! 1.5.8
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Recently, 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…)
