Security problem in forums

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3/17/2011 10:02:33 PM
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Security problem in forums

Hello.

I have setup two forum instances. One public and one totally private for the admins. Different menus also hidden.

Today i was informed that everybody can see the TOPICS and other information of the private forums if they click to a poster's posts (below the avatar)

/UserThreads.aspx?userid=whatever

Did i make something wrong or this is a bad bad security bug ?

Thanks

 

 

3/17/2011 10:20:47 PM
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Re: Security problem in forums

The same problem exists (for logged users only, still ..) in the Profile of somebody. They can click on the users threads and see everything

/Forums/UserThreads.aspx?userid=whatever

bypassing the security settings.

 

 

3/18/2011 4:58:53 AM
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Re: Security problem in forums

It is a known limitation of the forums. You have 2 options to deal with it.

  1. Use a separate site for private forums
  2. disable browsing of user threads by adding this to user.config <add key="AllowUserThreadBrowsing" value="false" />

 

Best,

Joe

3/18/2011 6:25:28 AM
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Re: Security problem in forums

Option #2 works ok,

 

Thanks !

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