WARNING - Fleixcontent contains serious security issue

We have recently had the same warning as mentioned previously on this forum regarding the included phpthumb which is part of the flexicontent installation.

Our hosting provider, has referred us to the National Vulnerability Database which points out that the version of phpthumb being used by Flexicontent has a severe vulnerabilty (as our website was hacked through that).

Therefore, it is critical that this is no longer used with flexicontent until a fix has been provided.

I advise people to not download flexicontent until this has been resolved.

See this advisory:-
web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detai ... -2010-1598

hello thaks for your return but ... it's a phptumbs probleme it si to hard to say

cden wrote: I advise people to not download flexicontent until this has been resolved.

but we try to change phptumb version
regards

sure, i understand this is a phpthumb problem - apparantly this issue is easy to solve by removing the fltr[] scripts. However, as I do not code php it is a little bit out of my realm.

However also, as this is bundled with Flexicontent, i would still recommend that people do not install any joomla extension that contains vulnerabilities and that Flexicontent may need to be added to the VEL (joomla Vulnerable Extensions List) which I'm sure Brian Teeman would quickly be doing if he discovered this!

cden, thanks for posting.
but solution "do not install flexicontent" becose of this is too rushed.
for example, on my site this library worked only for creat thumbs when tags navigation used - i am didnt use built-in image field.
so... i just remoove this library from hosting and my site still works

it is better to find solution rather than throw away the component... anybody got solution for this ?

cden wrote: . . Flexicontent may need to be added to the VEL (Joomla Vulnerable Extensions List) which I'm sure Brian Teeman would quickly be doing if he discovered this!

FLEXIcontent 1.5.3c also includes chmod 777.
That would be sure to raise Brian's ire.
I manually change this chmod code before installing on a public website.


Has anyone seen a code fix for this?
There is nothing on the phpThumbs website.

Awhile back I did make my own phpThumbs 1.7.10 - updated for PHP 5.3.
Found that fix somewhere . . .


EDIT, found a security fix here:
modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,54874...16279.html#msg316279
The downside is it is different for Linux and Windows servers.

If anyone finds a better/different fix, please post.

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