Joomla! 3.9.3 Released

Joomla 3.9.3 is now available.

This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 6 security vulnerabilities and contains 30 bug fixes and improvements

What’s new in Joomla 3.9.3?

Joomla 3.9.3 includes 6 security vulnerabilities fixes and several bug and improvements, including:

Security Issues Fixed

Low Priority - Core - Lack of URL filtering in various core components (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
Low Priority - Core - Browserside mime-type sniffing causes XSS attack vectors (affecting Joomla 1.0.0 through 3.9.2)
Low Priority - Core - Additional warning in the Global Configuration textfilter settings (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
Low Priority - Core - Stored XSS issue in the Global Configuration help url #2 (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)
Low Priority - Core - Implement the TYPO3 PHAR stream wrapper (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)

Bug fixes and Improvements

Prevent renaming/deleting the template index.php file #23654
Smart Search improvement #23736
Contacts banned fields removed #23585
Improvement of the Integration tab display #23711
Fix the category filter for featured articles #23454
Fix for the Template Style field in the menu manager #23556
Breadcrumbs for tags #23599

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

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