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Banshee Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Banshee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Seeing IP address? Posted: 15 September 2006 at 12:32pm
	I am an ordinary member of a Web Wiz Forum and one of the other users claims that she is able to retreive everyones IP addresses from the forum. Supposely she has no moderator access, but is just an ordinary user, like me. Does anybody know of any secrurity problems that could cause this? TIA /Banshee

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 September 2006 at 1:25pm
	The only way that this would be possible if the user is not a moderator or forum admin is if the forum is using the Access version and the webmaster did not secure the Access database and has left it in a location where it can be downloaded. If this is the case then the entire forum is vulnerable to hackers and the webmaster MUST secure their Access database, as per the install instructions.
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Banshee Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Banshee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 September 2006 at 1:36pm
	Thank you very much - that's what I thought.

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