VWE-2018-4485 Printable Version

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  pegasus
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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. VWE-2017-4318 was incorrectly applied. 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 Lite versions.

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 10
Workaround 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.
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. VWE-2017-4318 was incorrectly applied. 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 Lite versions.
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 10
Workaround	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.