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TYPO3 Security Bulletin

The file editor functionality in the TYPO3 Install Tool (menu option "Edit files in typo3conf/") has an option that reads "Make backup copy". If set, this will create a backup copy and append a "~" to the original file name. This leads to file names...

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th_mailformplus

A weakness in the form validation of th_mailformplus has been discovered that may be abused to inject additional recipients in mail forms.

chc_forum

A bug has been discovered in the "CHC Forum" (chc_forum) extension where some Javascript expressions are not properly caught when entered in forms. Thus, specially crafted entries may be used to inject malicious code.

Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

TYPO3 implementation of Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics. In an email interview I recently had with Maximo...

Acronym Manager

Making a Web site accessible can be simple or complex, depending on many factors such as the type of content, the size and complexity of the site, and the development tools and environment. One common problem is to mark abbrevations, acronyms an...

CSS styled IMGTEXT - Part3

I just released version 0.4.0 of CSS Styled Image Text. For who don't know yet, this is a working CSS based implementation of the "Text with Image" and "Image" content types (from tt_content).

TYPO3 Security Bulletin

A bug has been discovered in the "Front End News Submitter" (fe_news) where SQL injection is not safely prevented and thus malicious SQL commands are potentially possible. Since the RTE enabled version (fe_rtenews) is derived from fe_news, it is...

Zap The Gremlins - let's zap'em!

After many hours of preparation the "Zap the Gremlins" project team is now calling for the most nagging "Gremlins" (means: annoying issues, bugs). This is your chance to make TYPO3 even better than it already is. You are kindly invited to submit...

Accessibility feature in htmlArea RTE 0.7.2

The new version of the htmlArea RTE 0.7.2 brings along a new accessibility-related feature, that makes it easier to differentiate between internal, external, download and mail links and those links opening in the same browser-window, a new browser...

CSS styled IMGTEXT - Part2

Ernesto Baschny just released a new version of the "cron_cssstyledimgtext" extention. This will allow you to render the "Text with image" and "Image" content types without using any TABLE. There are some nice new features, some needed bug fixes and...

Accessibility, accessibility, accessibility!!!!!

Well we have had our fair share of dudes at TYCON who taught us how to behave while building the net and make everybody happy doing that. It is time to put things into practice, but what are we without any tools? From the guys that built...

1st annual TYPO3 conference is over

On September 8-10 the first annual TYPO3 conference for professionals, known as TYCON3, was held in Karlsruhe.Thursday was a day of tutorials within different aspects of working with TYPO3. From an introduction for people without any prior TYPO3...

Caching at TYPO3.org

Yesterday night we finally upgraded TYPO3.org to version 3.8.0. Because we had to clear all caches, including the indexed_search cache, the pages were rendered quite slowly in the time following. Kasper is currently fine-tuning the caching mechanism...

Sacha Vorbeck @ TYCON3

TYCON3 was held from september 8 - 11. Over 200 people attended the First International TYPO3 Conference. It was great to see that both accessibility speeches attracted so many people. Our accessibility man, Sacha Vorbeck, has won second prize for...

CSS styled IMGTEXT - It is here!!!

Finally someone had the guts to finish CSS styled IMGTEXT tHNx Ernesto!! Ernesto Baschny of Cron-It finished the "css-styled-imgtext" I originally started with Ingmar and was maintained by Andreas Schwarzkopf, but shamelessly never finished by us....