Site Lens documentation
Requirements
Joomla 5 or 6, and PHP 8.1 or newer (Joomla 6 itself needs PHP 8.3). Your server must be able to make outgoing web requests to fetch the public lists.
Install
- Download
pkg_sitelens-1.0.0.zipfrom the Site Lens page. - In your Joomla administrator, open System, then Install, Extensions.
- Upload the zip. Both Site Lens plugins are enabled for you.
Run your first scan
Open Components, then Site Lens, and press Scan this site. Press Scan again whenever you want a fresh result.
Read the result
The top of the page gives the overall result. Fix first lists what matters most, worst first. Below it, every extension and setting has its own status:
- On the vulnerable list: your installed version is affected. Update it, or remove it if no fix exists.
- Check this one: a listing matches this extension but doesn’t say which versions are affected. Check it yourself.
- No update source: the extension has no way to tell Joomla about new versions, so you need to watch for them yourself.
- No known issues: nothing on the lists matches this extension.
Ignore a finding
Press Ignore next to anything that doesn’t apply. To bring it back, use Stop ignoring.
Share the result
Copy report copies a plain text summary for a client or a support ticket.
Get an email when something new appears
- Open System, then Scheduled Tasks, and create a new task.
- Choose Site Lens – Scan and email.
- In Send to, enter email addresses separated by commas. Leave it empty to use every Super User who receives system emails.
- Keep Only new findings on Yes to be emailed only when something new has appeared since the last scheduled scan.
Administrator home page
After a scan, Site Lens shows its result in the Notifications area of the Home Dashboard. This uses the stored result and makes no web requests.
Updates
New versions appear in Joomla’s normal extension updates.
Uninstall
Open System, then Manage, Extensions, find the Site Lens package and uninstall it. Its files and its database table are removed.