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#11590 Which Admin Tools for use on 1.7.2 ?

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 16 March 2012 13:21 CDT

Friday, 16 March 2012 12:54 CDT

lakersharville
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 1.7.2
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Admin Tools version: None installed yet.

Description of my issue: Can you please advise as to which version of Admin Tools to instal for the first time on a site with 1.7.2 ?

Yours with thanks,

Chris

Friday, 16 March 2012 13:21 CDT

nicholas
Since March 15th, 2012, there is a known exploit which affects all Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7 releases, as well as Joomla! 2.5.0, 2.5.1 and 2.5.2. It was fixed in 2.5.3. The exploit allows an attacker to create a Super Administrator account by abusing the user creation form in the front-end. Since the attack is TRIVIAL to perform and does not trigger any kind of security alert (it looks like a legitimate user registration attempt), neither Admin Tools nor any other security component can protect you. As a result, we consider using Joomla! 1.6.x, 1.7.x or 2.5.0-2.5.2 EXTREMELY INSECURE and therefore ceased supporting those Joomla! versions effective the same day this vulnerability was discovered.

In other words, if you are using Joomla! 1.6.0 up to and including 2.5.2, a hacker can hack your site in about 2 minutes. You MUST upgrade IMMEDIATELY to Joomla! 2.5.3. Anything else will not work and you WILL be hacked.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Edited by brianteeman on 2012-03-18 04:02 CDT

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