“Very Important Security Fix” Coming For Joomla On Thursday

Joomla has put out an announcement that a new version, 3.4.5, will be released at 10 AM Eastern on Thursday that will contain a “very important security fix”. No details of what is the issue being fixed is have been released, but this is the first time that they have put out announcement like this as far back as we can remember, so it appears to be something that would be a major concern.

The last release that fixed a vulnerability that was exploitable in a non-targeted fashion was version 2.5.3, which came out in March of 2012.

For those still running 2.5.x, it would be a good time for you to upgrade as support for that version ended back in December. That upgrade often isn’t a one-click upgrade.