Joomla patches a critical remote execution bug

The open-source project behind the widely used Joomla content management system has issued a patch for a vulnerability that is now being widely used by hackers.

Sucuri, a company that specializes in securing websites, wrote on Monday that attackers have been trying exploit the flaw for the last two days.

As of Monday, Sucuri said "the wave of attacks is even bigger, with basically every site and honeypot we have being attacked. That means that probably every other Joomla site out there is being targeted as well."

The vulnerability, which affects Joomla versions 1.5 to 3.4.5, involves the user agent string, which is information transmitted by a browser to a Web server when a user visits a Web page.

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