Joomla 3.9.27 Released

Joomla 3.9.27 is Out

Joomla 3.9.27 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 3.9.27?

Joomla 3.9.27 is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 15 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla! 3.9.27 Release (joomla.org)

Security Issues Fixed

• Low Severity - Low Impact - Adding HTML to the executable block list of MediaHelper::canUpload (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.26)
• Low Severity - Low Impact - CSRF in AJAX reordering endpoint (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.26)
• Low Severity - Low Impact - CSRF in data download endpoints (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.26)

Bug fixes and Improvements

• Disable FLoC by default
• Postgres compatibility fixes for smart search
• Allow objects stored in tables as json
• Improve indexing performance of Smart Search
• Addional PHP 8 improvment

The previous release was on April 15, 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