Joomla 3.9.3 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.
Joomla 3.9.3 is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 6 security vulnerabilities and contains 30 bug fixes and improvements.
Joomla! 3.9.3 Release (joomla.org)
Security Issues Fixed
- Low Priority - Core - Lack of URL filtering in various core components (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
- Low Priority - Core - Browserside mime-type sniffing causes XSS attack vectors (affecting Joomla 1.0.0 through 3.9.2)
- Low Priority - Core - Additional warning in the Global Configuration textfilter settings (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
- Low Priority - Core - Stored XSS issue in the Global Configuration help url #2
- (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
- Low Priority - Core - XSS Issue in core.js writeDynaList (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
- Low Priority - Core - Implement the TYPO3 PHAR stream wrapper (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
Bug fixes and Improvements
- Prevent renaming/deleting the template index.php file
- Smart Search improvement
- Contacts banned fields removed
- Improvement of the Integration tab display
- Fix the category filter for featured articles
- Fix for the Template Style field in the menu manager
- Breadcrumbs for tags
The previous release was on January 15, 2019.
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
