full-disclosure - Re: Joomla! 1.6.3 and lower | Multiple Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:40:29 +1200
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Joomla! 1.6.3 and lower | Multiple Cross Site
 Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities

Christian Sciberras wrote:

> Rather than that, I'd say the dev team is out of sync with the security
> team..

Assuming that that may be a reasonable one-sentence encapsulation of 
how Joomla development is organized...

The fact such a sentence can be meaningfully utterred tells us there 
are major problems _inherent_ in Joomla.

The kind of problems that scream "Why would anyone in their right mind 
use it?"

Oh, wait -- it's written in PHP, right...

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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