Joomla! 3.8.9 and 3.8.10 are now available and they’re security <\/strong>releases. Since a few security issues and bugs have been resolved, we\u2019re considering these updates security fixes and we recommend all Joomla website owners have this upgrade done.<\/p>\n Joomla! 3.8.9 is a security <\/strong> release which addresses 2 security vulnerabilities, contains over 50 bug fixes, and includes various security related improvements.<\/p>\n Joomla! 3.8.9 Release<\/a> (joomla.org)<\/p>\n What\u2019s in Joomla! 3.8.9?<\/p>\n Security Issues Fixed:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Low Priority – Core – Local File Inclusion with PHP 5.3 (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.8.8)<\/p>\n – Low Priority – Core – XSS vulnerability in language switcher module (affecting Joomla 1.6.0 through 3.8.8)<\/p>\n Bug fixes and Improvements:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Correctly escape the random image module output<\/p>\n – Fix folder browsing and file upload that broke in 3.8.8 due to escaping<\/p>\n – com_mailto (mail to friend) allows the usage of a Captcha by using JForm<\/p>\n – Tag indexing improvement<\/p>\n – Fix use of hyphens in data attributes<\/p>\n – Updates to third party PHP libraries<\/p>\n – CodeMirror updated to 5.38.0<\/p>\n Joomla! 3.8.10 Release<\/a> (joomla.org)<\/p>\n What\u2019s in Joomla! 3.8.10?<\/p>\n Security Issues Fixed:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Joomla 3.8.10 is addressing one bug introduced into Joomla 3.8.9. This release is fixing the autoloader for Windows platforms<\/p>\n