Case Study: Joomla! achieves rapid detection and remediation of critical SQL injection vulnerabilities with Acunetix

Joomla! Ensures Website Security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner

Joomla, the open-source PHP content management system, faced a growing need to automate security audits because manual testing of its extensive core code was too time-consuming and error-prone. While evaluating tools, the Joomla Quality & Testing team adopted Acunetix’s Web Vulnerability Scanner (Acunetix) to automate vulnerability detection across releases.

Running Acunetix WVS on a local WAMP test environment, the team quickly uncovered high‑risk SQL injection flaws and several server‑level issues; developers fixed them using input filtering and PHP best practices and now run scans on every release. Acunetix therefore enabled Joomla to rapidly identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities, preventing potential full‑site compromise and improving the project’s quality, stability, and security.

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Robin Muilwijk

Member of the Quality and Testing Team