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TITLE:
vBulletin Products Blog Posts Security Bypass Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47536

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/47536/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=47536

RELEASE DATE:
2012-01-12

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/47536/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
 * Last Update
 * Popularity
 * Comments
 * Criticality Level
 * Impact
 * Where
 * Solution Status
 * Operating System / Software
 * CVE Reference(s)

http://secunia.com/advisories/47536/

ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Report Reliability
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 * CVSS

https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=47536

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in vBulletin and vBulletin
Publishing Suite, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass
certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to the blog_post.php script not
checking certain permissions, and can be exploited to post blog
entries.

The security issue is reported in vBulletin versions 3.x using Blogs
and vBulletin Publishing Suite versions prior to 4.1.10.

SOLUTION:
Apply update.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Truth66 in a bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
vBulletin:
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/394259
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-13921

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

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