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mforce 
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 Topic: Someone became mod without my permission
Posted: 29 May 2004 at 3:57pm |
I am using webwiz forums 7.7a and i saw a big problem in forum:
someone became a moderator without my permission..
can it be solved if i install webwiz 7.8?
thank you
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dj air
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Posted: 29 May 2004 at 4:24pm |
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no one can say for security perposes for other forums not using the
latest versions, but you should always be using the latest version
(ALWAYS).
best thing to do is update to the latest version. -Borg- will see this thread and will be able to determine what to do next.
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thekiwi
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Posted: 30 May 2004 at 12:43am |
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Although it would be nice to know that "yes that is possible" for that version
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Semikolon
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Posted: 30 May 2004 at 6:26am |
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it may be because of the security bugs in earlier versions, but didn't he just set himself as an administrator?
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 30 May 2004 at 7:51am |
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There hasn't been a bug of this nature in any version of the forum, it
sounds like either your groups are setup wrong and a moderator group is
set as a ladder group, you have setup forum permissions wrong, or you
or another moderator have accidently placed the user into the moderator
group.
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Posted: 30 May 2004 at 8:39am |
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Sounds like they either did a little "social engineering" to get the Admin UserID/Password, or they got access to the DB.
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mforce
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Posted: 31 May 2004 at 10:11am |
 dpyers wrote:
Sounds like they either did a little "social engineering" to get the Admin UserID/Password, or they got access to the DB. |
i asked all the admins and they say tey didn't do that. The person who became the moderator had registered that day and have no messages, also noone can access the db because db folder cannot be accessed by browser, only i can access it..
I hear that webwiz have some important security bugs, so i wanted to ask that problem to you..
i hope the forum had no security problems..
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 31 May 2004 at 12:16pm |
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There are no security bugs of the nature you are on about.
Really, for security reasons you should only have one admin account, anyone else make a moderator.
One of your admins could have edited the users settings and in running
the mouse wheel over the drop down list for the group the user is in
accidently placed the user in a moderator group. I've accidently done this before so it can happen.
Either that or it is
one of the reasons already given in a previous post.
Edited by -boRg-
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