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Joomla has been updated to version 3.8.13 and is now available on all our servers. The update is a security release for Joomla version 3.x and addresses several security vulnerabilities.

What's in 3.8.13

Joomla 3.8.13 includes 5 security vulnerability fixes:

• Low Priority - Core - Hardening com_contact contact form (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.8.12)
• Low Priority - Core - Inadequate default access level for com_joomlaupdate (affecting Joomla 2.5.4 through 3.8.12)
• Low Priority - Core - Access level Violation in com_tags (affecting Joomla 3.1.0 through 3.8.12)
• Low Priority - Core - ACL Violation in com_users for the admin verification (affecting Joomla 1.5.0 through 3.8.12) 
• Low Priority - Core - CSRF hardening in com_installer (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.8.12)

For more information, please see the official documentation wiki.

Why a 3.8.13 release?

The Joomla team has announced that Joomla 3.9, The Privacy Tool Suite by Joomla, will soon be available; however, in order to give users time to upgrade from 3.8.x to 3.9.0, they decided to fix the security vulnerabilities in a dedicated release prior to releasing 3.9.0.