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[20100704] - Core - XSS Vulnerabillitis in Back End
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.5.19 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: XSS Injection
- Reported Date: 2010-June-1
- Fixed Date: 2010-July-15
Description

Back-end user can inject Javascript in various administrator screens.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.19 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.20 or later)

Reported by Mesut Timur.

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100703] - Core - XSS Vulnerabillitis in Back End
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.5.19 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: XSS Injection
- Reported Date: 2010-June-8
- Fixed Date: 2010-July-15
Description

Back-end user can inject Javascript in various administrator screens.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.19 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.20 or later)

Reported by José Antonio Vázquez González

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100702] - Core - XSS Vulnerabillitis in Back End
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Medium
- Versions: 1.5.19 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: XSS Injection
- Reported Date: 2010-June-8
- Fixed Date: 2010-July-15
Description

Back-end user can inject Javascript in various administrator screens.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.19 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.20 or later)

Reported by José Antonio Vázquez González

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100701] - Core - SQL Injection / Internal Path Exposure
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: Low
- Versions: 1.5.19 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: Internal Path Exposure
- Reported Date: 2010-June-10
- Fixed Date: 2010-July-15
Description

Back-end user can create MySQL error which shows internal path information in the error message.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.19 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.20 or later)

Reported by Andy Gorges

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100501] - Core - XSS Vulnerabilities in Back End
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: All
- Severity: High
- Versions: 1.5.17 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: XSS Injection
- Reported Date: 2010-May-13
- Fixed Date: 2010-May-28
Description

Back-end user can inject javascript in various administrator screens.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.17 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.18 or later)

Reported by Riyaz Ahemed

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100423] - Core - Negative Values for Limit and Offset
- 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)

Reported by Security List

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100423] - Core - Installer Migration Script
- 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)

Reported by Nicola Bettini

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20100423] - Core - Sessation Fixation
- 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)

Reported by Raúl Siles and Steven Pignataro

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.[20100423] - Core - Password Reset Tokens
[20100423] - Core - Password Reset Tokens
- 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)

Reported by Madis Abel

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20091103] - Core - Front-End Editor Issue
- 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).

Reported by Hannes Papenberg

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.