Joomla 3.9.25 is Out
Joomla 3.9.25 is available and it’s a security release. Since a few security issues and bugs have been resolved, we’re considering this a security fix and we recommend all Joomla website owners have this upgrade done.
What's in 3.9.25?
Joomla 3.9.25 is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 9 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 40 bug fixes and improvements.
Joomla! 3.9.25 Release (joomla.org)
Security Issues Fixed
- Low Severity - Low Impact - Insecure randomness within 2FA secret generation (affecting Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Low Impact - Potential Insecure FOFEncryptRandval (affecting Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Moderate Impact - XSS within alert messages showed to users (affecting Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Moderate Impact - XSS within the feed parser library (affecting Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Low Impact - Input validation within the template manager (affecting Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Moderate Impact - com_media allowed paths that are not intended for image uploads (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Moderate Impact - ACL violation within com_content frontend editing (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Path Traversal within joomla/archive zip class (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.24)
- Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Inadequate filtering of form contents could allow to overwrite the author field (affecting Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.9.24)
Bug fixes and Improvements
- Fix Save as Copy tag
- Fix published attribute for Tag field
- Fix batch menu items
- Stream transport should enable verify_peer_name when possible
- Optimize the code for rename incorrectly cased files on update
- Addional PHP 8 improvments
The previous release was on January 13, 2021.
Our Website Maintenance Department will be in contact with our clients regarding this upgrade. If you need this upgrade done on your website, please contact us.
Thank you,
-Webstix Support
