The theme browser has been down for a while due to some maintenance. Today I activated it again so you can browse all my free WordPress themes.

All security issues in this report is fixed.

New version is 1.7.6

Excerpt from the report

Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WP-Forum plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks, and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed to the “user” parameter in the WordPress installation’s index.php script (when “forumaction” is set to “showprofile” and “page_id” to a page with the “” tag) is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows e.g. retrieving usernames, password hashes, and e-mail addresses for all users and administrators, but requires knowledge of the database table prefix.

2) Input passed to the “forum_query” parameter in the WordPress installation’s index.php script (when “forumaction” is set to “search”) is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the target user has valid user credentials.

3) Input passed to the “forumtext” parameter in the WordPress installation’s index.php script (when “forumaction” is set to “post”) is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the attacker has valid user credentials.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.7.4. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) websec Team
2, 3) FeDeReR and sinner_01

Maintanance release.

At last. WP-Forum version is now 1.7.3. It took some time but I tried to eliminate many of the bugs reported in the support forum. Some new features:

• Spam words filter option. (Optional)
• PHP 4 compability.
• Moderator can be set individually for every forum.
• Supports BBCode. (Optional)
• A new skin.
• Misc. bug fixes.

And as always when installing a new version deactivate and re-acivate the plugin in the WordPress admin area.

The spam filter option gets the spam words from WordPress’s own spam filter and words can be added in the WordPress admin -> option -> disscussion.

My work load has increase quite a lot lately and I have not much time for anwering all the support forum questions. No I now many of you out there are very familiar with Wordpress, PHP and my plugins. So I would really like some help in moderation of the forum.

Many of you are well suited for answering some of the support questions and now I really need your help. If the work load decreases on the support issue I may have more time to develop the plugins and fix bugs.

So if you feel up to the challange please drop me an email on the contact page.

Current moderators are me and Ghidra99.