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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 None VWE-ID VWE-2018-4485 Related Report None Severity LOW Exploit Difficulty NORMAL Platform Affects all platforms supported by the vulnerable versions. Description Permissions Escalation. Users may be able to view the titles of content in a Similar Content block, without permission to view that content, by leveraging the WIDGET BB-Code. Does not affect the Lite version.
Discovered February 16, 2018 Resolved March 16, 2018 Patches Available 4.0.21 Patch Level 1
4.0.20 Patch Level 4
4.0.19 Patch Level 7
4.0.18 Patch Level 8
4.0.17 Patch Level 10Workaround In your AdminCP, go to your forum's Custom BB-Codes manager, and locate the WIDGET BB-Code. In the BB-Code's settings:
- Set Wiki-Related Options > Parse BB-Code in Wiki pages? = No.
Set Wiki-Related Options > Parse BB-Code in non-wiki messages? = No.