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Phpbb 2.0.13 Important

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A new exploit is already out for phpbb 2.0.13. I've asked the phpbb development team about it, and they say it will be fixed in version 2.0.14. It's a way to make yourself admin through exploitation of cookie data. Here's the fix anyway: Add $userdata['user_level'] = USER;after every $userdata['user_id'] = ANONYMOUS;in session.php

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Thanks for sharing this information with us. This will definately help most of the people using PHPbb

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You mean sessions.php, right?

 

It's located in the includes folder.

 

I found just two instances of

 

$user_id = $userdata['user_id'] = ANONYMOUS;

is that all?

 

I don't know PHP very well, so could you confirm that this is all right?

 

Thanks.

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I beleve it is,You should take up a cource in php or asp.Its really cool or you could go onto Win server 2005 or 4, which ever ones out now.Anyway, as usual my sig-Thanks,FFC Webmaster,Asad Haider.

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Thanks for telling us about this flaw. I upgraded as soon as I found this out!To everoyne else - Make sure that you upgrade your version of phpBB as soon as possible, it is a good habbit to always upgrade

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