Upgrading Joomla! 1.0.x to Joomla! 1.0.14

Joomla! 1.0.14 was released on February 11, 2008. It fixed several serious security vulnerabilities. These include

• SECURITY[LOW] Fixed XSS issue in Search Component.

• SECURITY[LOW] Fixed XSS issue in Search results pages.

• SECURITY[LOW] Disallowed users from adding extra wildcard filters in search strings.

• SECURITY[LOW] Fixed multiple typos in back end Content Component making array integer check ineffective.

• SECURITY[LOW] Fixed case-sensitive flaw in Input Filter.

• SECURITY[HIGH] Fixed CSRF issue allowing portal compromise - Administrator components.

Besides the above mentioned problems, it also fixed other significant issues that are listing below:

• Administrator logout problem.

• Fixed bug in Search Component where small word were not properly filtered out.

• Improved efficiency of regular expressions in Search Component (thus reducing CPU resources when called).

• Added "Preview" link to Administrator template (to match 1.5).

• Fixed bug in pagination links (extra space was being added to the link).

• Various core API fixes.

For instructions of how to upgrading your existing Joomla! 1.0.x, please check out Upgrade Instructions here.