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Impact: A remote user can access the target user's cookies including authentication cookies , if any, associated with the site running the Invision Power Board software, access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user. Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.

Vendor URL: www. Cause: Input validation error. While this is fairly standard and may even be required depending on how your web server is configured, it is certainly not always needed and may leak important information to other users on the server.

Therefore I have no need for all other users to also be able to read the file. This could happen if some other user has SSH access, they would be able to simply view this configuration file by default and retrieve the database password and possibly then connect to the database and dump it.

In this particular instance, the web server had the database port available over the Internet and it was possible to gain access to the database as a poor password had been selected. Most shared hosting will prevent this with things such as suhosin , but new administrators setting up a web server on their own VPS are likely to run all websites as the default user of the web server.

By doing this an attacker that compromises any website on the server will then be able to access files associated with other websites on the same server. This is done by simply modifying the php. See this guide on finding where your php. While not strictly part of Invision Power Board itself, a web application firewall can help defend against various security issues.

While there are methods of bypassing the WAF and even CloudFlare itself , this will help keep out a lot of automated attacks. The Invision Power Board software receives fairly regular updates, and recently the update process has been made a lot easier. Simply log in and click a few buttons and the new files will be downloaded as needed. If you do not apply security updates as they become available, your installation of IPB will be running with known vulnerabilities which may be exploitable by an attacker.

Ensure that you have set an email address in the Admin CP for IPB to send emails to when updates are available, this way you can be alerted when updates are released and install them as soon as possible.

Some settings can be modified through here, including removing the Admin CP link or enabling a password through the use of htpasswd as previously mentioned above, however any other security issues that IPB has identified will be listed here so that you are aware of them and can work towards fixing them. While the majority of the information here has been specific to securing the Invision Power Board software, keeping the web server itself secure is also extremely important.

I have previously written a guide on securing Linux which covers many other topics that I recommend you read after this in order to ensure that your server is secured as can be. Maintain Up To Date Backups While not specifically a security measure, it is important that you keep your own regularly updated backup of the Invision Power Board files, and any associated databases in a safe and secure remote location backups on the same server that the website runs off do not count.

In the event that your website is compromised, having backups to restore from can save you a lot of time and effort when recovering. Of course when you do restore from backup, be sure that you patch what ever vulnerability that resulted in the website being compromised, otherwise it will just happen again later. What To Do If You Have Been Compromised While the above security measures should help protect your Invision Power Board installation, you should be aware of what to do if you discover that you have been compromised.

This section is by no means an exhaustive list, but aims to simply provide a basic guide of things that you may want to consider doing should this happen. Your primary goal is to find out how access was gained and patch that hole, otherwise your cleanup efforts may be quickly undone. The logs are your best bet at getting an idea of finding out what happened. These will list when login events occurred, as well as from which IP addresses which you can then block.

Changing the passwords of administrative users is a good idea, even if the logs do not indicate that an administrative account has yet been accessed. Currently there does not appear to be a built in method of forcing all users to change password with Invision Power Board, which is not ideal after a compromise. There are third party plugins available that offer this service, so that may be an option for you to consider. The best platform for compelling community experiences.

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