If you are a Joomla user, you better start updating your sites now.

Joomla was updated recently! Joomla issued a new minor versions, v2.5.14 and v3.1.5, that patches some very critical security holes, so it is very important you update as soon as possible! We are urging all customers to log in to update their Joomla sites to the latest version to help keep your site secure! They didn’t provide much details, but by the summary is seems serious enough to allow users to bypass upload restrictions:

• Project: Joomla!
• Severity: Critical
• Versions: 2.5.13 and earlier 2.5.x versions. 3.1.4 and earlier 3.x versions.
• Exploit type: Unauthorised Uploads
• Reported Date: 2013-June-25
• Fixed Date: 2013-July-31
• Description: Inadequate filtering leads to the ability to bypass file type upload restrictions.

More information on Joomla 2.5.14 update here: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/563-20130801-core-unauthorised-uploads

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at support[at]tetrahostbd[dot]com.