Someone became mod without my permission
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Topic: Someone became mod without my permission
Posted By: mforce
Subject: Someone became mod without my permission
Date Posted: 29 May 2004 at 3:57pm
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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 ------------- http://forum.oyyun.com |
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Posted By: dj air
Date 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. |
Posted By: thekiwi
Date 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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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 30 May 2004 at 6:26am
| it may be because of the security bugs in earlier versions, but didn't he just set himself as an administrator? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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 By: dpyers
Date 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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Posted By: mforce
Date Posted: 31 May 2004 at 10:11am
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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.. ------------- http://forum.oyyun.com |
dpyers wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: mforce
Date Posted: 01 June 2004 at 9:03am
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ok thanks a lot, i'll do what you said.. ------------- http://forum.oyyun.com |