Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48907 (CVSS score of 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. “A vulnerability in the JCE […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2024
Joomla maintainers have addressed multiple vulnerabilities in the popular content management system (CMS) that can lead to execute arbitrary code. The maintainers of the Joomla! Project released Joomla 5.0.3 and 4.4.3 versions that addressed the following vulnerabilities in the popular content management system (CMS): The impact of these flaws can be widespread because roughly 2% of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2020
Maintainers at the Joomla open-source content management system (CMS) announced a security breach that took place last week. Last week a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site (resources.joomla.org) on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket operated by the company. The company did not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2019
Security researchers are monitoring a new hacking campaign aimed at Joomla and WordPress websites, attackers used .htaccess injector for malicious redirect. Researchers at Sucuri are warning Joomla and WordPress websites admins of malicious hypertext access (.htaccess) injector found on a client website. The website was used by attackers to redirect traffic to advertising sites that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. Crooks are utilizing hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites running WordPress and Joomla websites to store and serve malicious payloads. Hacked websites were used for several malicious purposes, experts observed compromised WordPress and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2018
Joomla development team has released the Joomla 3.8.4 that addresses many issues, including an SQL injection bug and three cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws. Joomla development team has released the Joomla 3.8.4 that addresses a large number of issues, including an SQL injection bug and three cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The latest release also includes several improvements. The XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities have been classified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2017
Joomla maintainers released a fix for a critical SQL injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-8917, that can be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack websites On Wednesday Joomla maintainers released a fix for a critical SQL injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8917, that can be easily exploited by a remote attacker to obtain sensitive data and hijack websites. The vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Information Security experts have discovered an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability in Joomla component ja-k2-filter-and-search. Information Security Researchers Dimitrios Roussis and Evangelos Apostoloudis have discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in component ja-k2-filter-and-search (https://www.joomlart.com/joomla/extensions/ja-k2-search) of Joomla, a popular open-source Content Management System (CMS). This component has been used in various Joomla sites. Through the use of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2016
Threat actors in the wild are behind the Realstatistics campaign are leveraging on out-of-date CMSs to deliver the CryptXXX ransomware. Security experts from Sucuri security firm have spotted a new ransomware-based campaign dubbed ‘Realstatistics’ conducted by threat actors in the past two weeks. “Our Incident Response Team (IRT) has been tracking a mass infection campaign over the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threat actors behind the “Admedia attacks” are now looking with increasing interest to Joomla. This is the discovery made by the experts at the Internet Storm […]
