Joomla! Security Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Two vulnerability have been identified in Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1. Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
   This vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.7.3.

2. An error in the random number generation when resetting passwords can be exploited to change a user's password.