A vulnerability has been identified in Joomla, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is caused by input validation errors in the "components/com_search/views/search/tmpl/default_results.php" and "templates/beez/html/com_search/search/default_results.php" scripts when processing the "searchword" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code with the privileges of the web server.
Vulnerable Products
Vulnerable Software: Joomla version 1.5 beta 2 and prior
