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October is a self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application framework. It supports MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and SQL Server for the database back end[3] and uses a flat file database for the front end structure.[4] The October CMS covers a range of capabilities such as users, permissions, themes, and plugins, and is seen as a simpler alternative to WordPress.[5][6][7]
Developer(s) | Alexey Bobkov, Samuel Georges |
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Initial release | May 15, 2014[1] |
Stable release | |
Written in | PHP |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Content management system |
License | Proprietary software |
Website | octobercms |
The platform is intended to have a small learning curve and a template system easily manageable with version control systems.[7] As of November 2023, October is the second-most starred PHP CMS repository hosted on GitHub[8] and is 17th most popular on the Entire Internet in Open Source category according to built with.[9]
On April 12, 2021, October CMS transitioned from using an MIT License to a proprietary software model[10] citing concerns over a lack of sustainability with the open-source model.
October offers the following features, among others:
From the 13th to 14th of January 2022, a known vulnerability in October CMS was used to deface the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers and other Ukrainian government websites as part of the 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks.[14][15] The Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that there was no data leak.[16] The vulnerabilities were fixed nearly a year before the attack,[17] although not all sites were running the latest version.[18][19] Ukrainian cybersecurity agencies said the attack involved exploitation of CVE-2021-32648,[20] a vulnerability in the October CMS, as well as the exploitation of the notorious Log4Shell flaw, and DDoS attacks.[21]
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