Firm scrambles to patch vBulletin software flaw

serious flaw in software widely used to power online discussion sites could allow hackers to harvest reams of personal data, the BBC has learned.

The flaw in a specific version of the vBulletin software allows anyone to easily access the main administrator username and password for a site.

This would also allow hackers to access data, such as e-mail addresses, and edit the site at will.

More at -->> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10714192

I'm staggered that considering how widespread vBulletin is, it's not been discovered before...

It's not fixing this that's gonna be the biggest problem, It's going to be rolling out the update. As most won't know or bother. Or have been left with a forum by someone and they're technically incapable...

I've not read the full story but I really hope it's a really elaborate hack... Otherwise every kid in every IT class will be messing up forums...

I am very much worried about this as I have around 27000  registered members on my site

Is your forum vBulletin? This is about vBulletin, not E-Blah. Ronymon, your forum is E-Blah, so nothing to worry about.

no iCONICA , I have 3 sites  and 3 of these sites run in differenet programes example Joomla, Eblah and vBulletin (vBulletin is suppose to be more secured one I thought , But  now it was wrong ) The problem with eblah is , not much templates and other features .

Yeah, E-Blah's strongest feature is it's security. On top of that, it's not very highly targeted by hackers due to not being as widely distributed as other platforms.

Massive forum software like SMF, vBulletin or PHPBB become victims of their own success in a way... Being that size has positive and negatives, positives are lots of new, cutting edge features, negatives are that they're targeted by hackers and hacks much more...

Quoted from iCONICA

Yeah, E-Blah's strongest feature is it's security. On top of that, it's not very highly targeted by hackers due to not being as widely distributed as other platforms.

Massive forum software like SMF, vBulletin or PHPBB become victims of their own success in a way... Being that size has positive and negatives, positives are lots of new, cutting edge features, negatives are that they're targeted by hackers and hacks much more...

That's why it needs to continue!!!!

LONG LIVE EBLAH!

Quoted from Ronymon

I am very much worried about this as I have around 27000  registered members on my site

It's big numbers, comparing with mine 1500 numbers, my looks like a baby.

E-Blah looks really nice, but vbulletin's features are more widespread and help get more visitors to the site...but I guess security is too big a flaw to overlook.