{"id":7036,"date":"2014-09-11T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:49:21","slug":"virtuemart-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/virtuemart-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"SiteGround Customers Protected Against Serious VirtueMart Vulnerability!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7037\" src=\"https:\/\/newblog.siteground.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/vulnerability.jpg\" alt=\"vulnerability\" width=\"540\" height=\"181\"><\/p>\n<p>A serious vulnerability in the popular Joomla extension VirtueMart was discovered by the <a title=\"Sucuri\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sucuri.net\/2014\/09\/security-advisory-virtuemart-for-joomla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">awesome people at Sucuri<\/a>&nbsp;during one of their regular security audits. It allows regular users to gain Super Administrator privileges&nbsp;to a Joomla website with VirtueMart 2.6.8c and below installed on it.&nbsp;If a site with an older version of VirtueMart allows user registration (which is a default mode&nbsp;in VirtueMart) it can be hacked through this vulnerability.<br><!--more--><br>Our security team has acted immediately&nbsp;and we&#8217;ve added the necessary rules to our in-house application layer firewall in order to protect our customers. VirtueMart developers have been super fast too &#8211; a new version that fixes the bug is already released. Although we got you shielded, <strong>we strongly recommend that you upgrade VirtueMart to its <a href=\"https:\/\/virtuemart.net\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest version<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[subscribe_cta]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious vulnerability in the popular Joomla extension VirtueMart was discovered by the awesome people at Sucuri&nbsp;during one of their regular security audits. 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