News items tagged with "bugs"

There are several security vulnerabilities in all versions of Exponent 2.x found in September and October, 2016, reported by a number of individuals including:Manuel Garcia Cardenas, the PKAV TEAM, fyth, felixk3y, DM_, obfusor, xiaoL, ylgaaaaa, Tomato, wooeast, and xiojunjie, These vulnerabilities could allow possible SQL injections, remote file exploits, RCE, XSS, changes to configurations, and other issues. They have been present in all versions of Exponent (2.x). The fix is:

This patch fixes several issues in the v2.3.9 release. It also provides several tweaks and new features including a 'fill screen' feature for the elFinder file manager, though the main focus is providing several security fixes. Patch #1 to v2.3.9 is found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/exponentcms/files/exponent-2.3.9-patch-1.zip/download​

This version, code-named 'Sultry Summer' fixes many issues in the previous version(s) and adds several new features. There is a new dynamic drag-n-drop form designer for Twitter Bootstrap 3 based themes which greatly speeds up form design. It also provides much better support for small devices when using a Twitter Bootstrap 3 based theme. Other major include:

Though they are both extremely old versions, they were the release before a major version change and are/may still be in use. Please bear in mind we strongly recommend your installations be updated to a much newer version which contains many more fixes and new features. Having said that, these patches (v2.1.4patch9 and v2.2.3patch12) fix a security vulnerability reported by Balisong which might allow uploaded scripts to be executed.