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Joomla users: Update immediately to kill severe SQLi vulnerability

Help Net Securityby @zeljkazorz ()1 min read2
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CVE-2017-8917
SQL injection vulnerability in Joomla! 3.7.x before 3.7.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors
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Version 3. 7 of Joomla, pushed out less than a month ago, opens websites to SQL injection attacks, Sucury Security researchers have found. As explained by researcher Marc-Alexandre Montpas: “The vulnerability is caused by a new component, com_fields , which was introduced in version 3.

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