SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA45804 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/45804/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45804 RELEASE DATE: 2011-08-30DESCRIPTION: A weakness has been reported in the Almond Classifieds component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data and potentially gain escalated privileges. The weakness is caused due to the component setting insecure permissions (777) for folders before being used. This can be exploited to e.g. modify, create, or delete files contained in the folders. The weakness is reported in version 7.5. Other versions may also be affected. SOLUTION: Update to the latest version. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by the Joomla! VEL team. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://docs.joomla.org/Vulnerable_Extensions_List#Almond_Classifieds