Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Joomla! 1.5.23 and Previous
Joomla!® is a content management system with more than 200,000 users and contributors.
Affected Application: Joomla! 1.5.23 and previous.
Issue: On 07/27/11, an information disclosure vulnerability was reported for multiple versions of Joomla! The vulnerability lets attackers use the view.html.php script to discover the absolute path to Joomla!, which they could use for additional attacks.
Resolution: Joomla! 1.7 is available. For more information, visit the vendor's website: http://www.joomla.org/.
This information was compiled using information in the National Vulnerability Database. For more information about this issue, see the summary for CVE-2011-2890.
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