Joomla! 3.9.17 Released
Joomla 3.9.17 is now available.
This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three security vulnerabilities and contains over 40 bug fixes and improvements.
What's in 3.9.17?
Joomla 3.9.17 includes 3 security vulnerability fixes and addresses several bugs, including:
Security Issues Fixed
- Low Priority - Core - Incorrect access control in com_users access level editing function (affecting Joomla 3.8.8 through 3.9.16)
- Low Priority - Core - Missing checks for the root usergroup in usergroup table (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.16)
- Low Priority - Core - Incorrect access control in com_users access level deletion function (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.16)
Bug fixes and Improvements
- Removal of an unneeded file added to 3.9.16 #28307
- Multilingual Associations: Fix for the Edit Associations buttons in Menu Items #28339 and in Category #28678
- PHPMailer upgraded to its latest version #28398
- 'New' MVC classes depreciation notice for 4.0 instead of 5.0 #28366
- Facilitate the usage of help system by third parties #13286
- PostgreSQL: Fix for module loading #28278
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