Joomla 4.1.2 and 3.10.8 Released

Joomla 4.1.2 & 3.10.8 is now available. This is a security release for both the 4.x and the 3.x series of Joomla which address a few security vulnerabilities and contains various bug fixes and improvements.

What's in 4.1.2?

Joomla 4.1.2 includes all security patches from 4.1.1 except 20220303 that has been reverted due to implementation issues.

Security Issues Fixed with 4.1.1

[20220301] Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Zip Slip within the Tar extractor (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220302] Low Severity - Low Impact - Path Disclosure within filesystem error messages (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220305] Low Severity - High Impact - Inadequate filtering on the selected Ids (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220306] Low Severity - Low Impact - Inadequate validation of internal URLs (affecting Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220307] Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Variable Tampering on JInput $_REQUEST data (affecting Joomla! 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220308] Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Inadequate content filtering within the filter code (affecting Joomla! 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220309] Low Severity - Moderate Impact - XSS attack vector through SVG (affecting Joomla! 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)

Bug fixes and Improvements

Fix language strings behaviour in TinyMCE
Fix switch for syntax highlighting in TinyMCE
Show failed tasks in scheduler
Correct usage of Jooa11y parameters
Codemirror enhancements
Several 8.x PHP fixes

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

What’s in 3.10.8?

Joomla 3.10.8 includes all security patches from 3.10.7 except 20220303 that has been reverted due to implementation issues:

Security Issues Fixed with 3.10.7

[20220301] Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Zip Slip within the Tar extractor (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220302] Low Severity - Low Impact - Path Disclosure within filesystem error messages (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220304] Low Severity - Moderate Impact - Missing input validation within com_fields class inputs (affecting Joomla! 3.7.0 through 3.10.6)
[20220305] Low Severity - High Impact - Inadequate filtering on the selected Ids (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)
[20220306] Low Severity - Low Impact - Inadequate validation of internal URLs (affecting Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.10.6 & 4.0.0 through 4.1.0)

Bug fixes and Improvements with 3.10.7

Backport JQuery UI security patch for CVE-2021-41184 (#37308 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/37308))
Disable Google Fonts setting for 3.10.7+ new installations (#36888 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/36888))
[Regression] Fix updating redirect values unintentionally changed (#36951 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/36951))
Remove FLoC setting as it has been abandoned (#36861 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/36861))
E-Mail Cloak: TLDs long as 10 will no longer truncated until (#36986 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/36986))
Privacy Consent wording I agree vs I do not agree (#37181 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/37181))

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

Click here for full release information.

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