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Saturday, 4 January 2014

vulnerability allows Joomla website be hacked

This is for educational purposes, 
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Vulnerability Explained


      This vulnerability allows Joomla website to be hacked through the Media Manager. To exploit the vulnerability the attacker should find a Joomla website that allows access to the media manager to its registered users. Then he/she will register an account and use the vulnerability to upload a malicious shell script to this site through the Media Manager. After that the attacker can do pretty much anything – edit your files, access your database, delete information, etc.
How can this issue be stop?

---  Applied a server level solution ::  blocks the upload of malicious files through the Media Manager on a server level.

---  Upgrade your  Joomla website to either 2.5 and 3.x 
 
----  make sure to Patch your  Joomla 1.5 :::  Joomla 1.5 is no longer officially supported, there was no upgrade available for it. However, the Joomla team has released a security patch that should be applied manually and patched all the old Joomla versions hosted.

--- watch this video1  Tutorial Upload Shell on Joomla CMS via Media Manager

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