Archive for August, 2008

The Default Virtuemart Theme is a piece of $***!

August 30th, 2008

There I’ve said it, I’ve spent the most part of today and my afternoon yesterday theming VM. I thought, hey there’s a default template here, I’ll just modify that…

Several hours later, I’m bumping into inline styles, redundant div nesting and crappy css! FFS I just wanted to change a couple of defaults! VM team! Please update your default template to use semantic mark up!!!! I can’t put it anyother way… The default virtuemart theme is a piece of $***.

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Security Alert for Joomla 1.5.x Users

August 14th, 2008

A security alert has been raised at the Joomla Developer site. A vulnerability has been found to exist in the “user” component of the popular OSS which allows attackers to forge a password reset. Joomla Developers have since developed a patch which is available from their website.

Versions affected: 1.5 – 1.5.5
Solution: Download the patch and Upgrade to 1.5.6 -> http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/

More details about this vulnerability can be found on the following URL:
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/241-20080801-core-password-remind-functionality.html