October is a self-hosted

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(CMS) based on the

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programming language and Laravel web application framework. It supports

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and

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for the database backend and uses a flat file database for the front end structure. The October CMS covers a range of capabilities such as users, permissions, themes, and plugins, and is seen as a simpler alternative to

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. The platform is intended to have a small learning curve and a template system easily manageable with version control systems. As of July 2021, October is the second-most starred PHP CMS repository hosted on

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and is 17th most popular on the Entire Internet in Open Source category. The platform won the CMS Critic People's Choice Award for Best Flat File CMS for 2018. The Dallas Museum of Art uses October CMS in their information kiosks Many of October users are located in the United States, Ukraine and Russia. There are also some European users. On April 12, 2021, October CMS transitioned from using an MIT License to a proprietary software model citing concerns over a lack of sustainability with the open-source model. Other formerly free software such as transitioned to a paid licensing model one year later.

Features

October offers the following features, among others: * Components, a key feature that are configurable building elements that can be attached to any page. * Building an interface requires minimal programming."Introducing October – a Laravel-based CMS"
by Nick Salloum, November 17, 2014 * Flat files are used to serve the website structure. * Includes an Ajax framework built in for back-end and front-end. * Uses

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as templating engine. This makes it possible to completely separate data from the templates. * File manager with

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support and image cropping. * CSS and JavaScript assets can be combined and minified with just a single tag in the CMS templates. * The whole setup is event-driven, which enables the user to hook into core or plugin processes and extend them. * Updates and plugins are delivered with a package manager. * Community-contributed extensions in the October CMS marketplace. * The back-end is translated into 36 languages.

Ukraine cyberattacks

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 During the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple cyberattacks against Ukraine were recorded, as well as some attacks on Russia. The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January ...

. The Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that there was no data leak. The vulnerabilities were fixed nearly a year before the attack, although not all sites were running the latest version. Ukrainian cybersecurity agencies said the attack involved exploitation of CVE-2021-32648, a vulnerability in the October CMS, as well as the exploitation of the notorious Log4Shell flaw, and

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."Ukraine Attacks Involved Exploitation of Log4j, October CMS Vulnerabilities"
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