DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in the JE Auto component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Certain input is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries when viewing an item. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.1.
SOLUTION: Update to version 1.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by the vendor.
DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been discovered in the Billy Portfolio component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "catid" parameter to index.php (when "option" is set to "com_billyportfolio" and "view" is set to "billyportfolio") is not properly sanitised in models/billyportfolio.php before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.1. Other versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION: Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
DESCRIPTION: Salvatore Fresta has discovered a security issue in the JE Messenger component for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
The security issue is caused due to the controllers/compose.php script improperly handling uploaded files containing disallowed extensions. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a malicious PHP script via the "Compose Mail" page.
Successful exploitation requires guessing the uploaded file name, which is based on the uploaded time stamp.
The security issue is confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION: Restrict access to the "Compose Mail" page to trusted users only.
DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the JXtended Comments component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.3.1.
SOLUTION: Update to version 1.3.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by the vendor.
DESCRIPTION: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in sh404SEF component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks
1) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
2) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.1.8.777.
SOLUTION: Update to 2.1.8.777 or later.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: The vendor credits Jeff Channel.