The versions listed below are known to be affected by this issue. If you are using one of those versions, you should update to a newer release that has no known vulnerabilities.
Common Name Greedy Widget Vulnerability VWE-ID VWE-2016-2064 Related Report None Severity Extreme Exploit Difficulty EASY Platform XenForo 1.x Description Denial of service amplification. Does not affect Lite versions.
Discovered February 1, 2016 Resolved February 9, 2016 Patches Available 4.0.8 Patch Level 2
4.0.7 Patch Level 3
4.0.6 Patch Level 6
4.0.5 Patch Level 6
4.0.4 Patch Level 6
4.0.3 Patch Level 6
4.0.2 Patch Level 9Workaround In your forum software's BB-Code Manager, disable parsing of the BB-Code with unique identifier "vw_widget_tag," "vw_forumindex_tag," "vw_bookindex_tag," and "vw_showthreads_tag." Notes
Further investigation of the related VWE-2022-6469 in 2024 revealed that this issue only affected XenForo 1.x platforms, though at the time it was implied to affect all platforms.
Sub-Categories of VWE-2016-2064
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