Preventing SQL Injection Attacks on your Joomla Websites

Posted by himanshu on Sep 16, 2008 11:49 PM EDT
Packt Publishing; By Tom Canavan 		Mail this story
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Joomla!, a very popular content management system (CMS) is as you may know an easy-to-deploy-and-use content management system. This ease of use has lent itself to rapid growth of both the CMS and extensions for it. You can install it on almost any host, running Linux or Windows. This highly versatile software has found itself in such lofty places as large corporate web portals, and humble places such as the simple blog.

Joomla! itself is inherently safe, but misconfigurations of the CMS, vulnerable components, hosts that are poorly configured, and weak passwords can all contribute to the downfall of your site. Hence, it's always better to ensure the security of your site.

In this article by Tom Canavan, we will take a look at how SQL injection attacks can occur to your Joomla website, how we can test for SQL injection attacks, and how to stop SQL injection.

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Inline sql in the code that's asking for trouble. tracyanne 0 908 Sep 17, 2008 12:22 AM

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