Mambo / Joomla SQL Injection Vulnerability

August 28th, 2006 Omid has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo & Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "id" parameter when editing content isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query.

March 2nd, 2006 Mambo / Joomla passwords cannot be recovered as they are set using a one-way hash function (MD5). However they can be reset to new values.

June 29th, 2006 Kw3[R]Ln has discovered a vulnerability in the MOD_CBSMS module for Mambo, which can be exploited to compromise a machine serving Mambo CMS. Input passed to the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter in mod_cbsms_messages.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files.

July 14th, 2006 Joomla Content Management System was forked off Mambo CMS after most of the core Mambo developers disagreed with Mambo Management. The current stable release is 1.0.10.

June 29th, 2006 KeyCoder has discovered a vulnerability in the MyAds module for Xoops, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "lid" parameter in annonces-p-f.php isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query.

December 9th, 2007 I have been an avid user of Mambo and now Joomla since 2001. taragana.com is designed using Joomla.

June 3rd, 2008 How effective is a site re-design? The final proof is in site traffic. When we started re-designing Taragana.com we had many apprehensions.

December 16th, 2007 MODx is an excellent AJAX enabled content management system, which is leagues ahead of Joomla / Mambo. One of the features of MODx is that pages aren't fully deleted.

September 13th, 2005 A comprehensive comparison of two leading open source CMS - Mambo versus Drupal

November 14th, 2005 A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file.

December 16th, 2005 A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the Apache httpd server's mod_imap module which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Referer when using image maps. Input passed to the image map "Referer" directive in "mod_imap" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user.

July 18th, 2006 Naveed has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint, which potentially can be exploited to compromise any user's system. The vulnerability has been confirmed on Windows XP SP2 with a fully patched PowerPoint 2003.

November 9th, 2005 There are few reports of an attack by a new Linux worm called Lupper which exploits a well known PHP XMLRPC implementation vulnerability. PHP XMLRPC implementation is used in a large number of popular web applications such as PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution, Xoops, PHPGroupWare, TikiWiki etc.

March 3rd, 2008 Our website ( taragana.com ) needs to continuously adapt to our growing business. The old website was based on Joomla CMS, which despite its strength, was pretty hard to easily customize for our complex needs.

January 29th, 2005 I was reading http://jroller.com/page/mlconnor/20050129#genetic_algorithms_routing, which talks about using GA for choosing between algorithms. Wondering if we could develop a GA based program to run 100+ Open Source CMS systems through paces and picks the best one, based on our provided criteria.