Joomla! 3.8.8 Released

Joomla! 3.8.8 Released

Joomla! 3.8.8, the latest releases of the 3.x release series is now available.

This is a security release which addresses 9 security vulnerabilities, contains over 50 bug fixes, and includes various security related improvements..

What's in 3.8.8?

Joomla 3.8.8 addresses 9 security vulnerabilities / hardenings and several bugs, including:

Security Issues Fixed

  • Low Priority - Core - ACL violation in access levels (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Low Priority - Core - Add phar files to the upload blacklist (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Moderate Priority - Core - Information Disclosure about unpublished tags (affecting Joomla 3.1.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Low Priority - Core - Installer leaks plain text password to local user (affecting Joomla 3.0.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Moderate Priority - Core - XSS Vulnerabilities & additional hardening (affecting Joomla 3.0.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Low Priority - Core - Filter field in com_fields allows remote code execution (affecting Joomla 3.7.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Low Priority - Core - Session deletion race condition (affecting Joomla 3.0.0 through 3.8.7)
  • Low Priority - Core - Possible XSS attack in the redirect method (affecting Joomla 3.2.1 through 3.8.7)
  • Low Priority - Core - XSS vulnerability in the media manager (affecting Joomla 1.5.0 through 3.8.7)

Bug fixes and Improvements

  • Miscellaneous accessibility improvements for the Backend
  • Updated CodeMirror to 5.37 and various improvements #20269 #19833 #12542
  • Improved handling of numeric user group names #20091
  • [com_content] Filter by no author #20245
  • Added support for PHP 7.3’s is_countable function #20441
  • Sending passwords by email disabled by default for new installs #20247

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

Click here for full release information.

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