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Security Comparisons: SMF & MyBB

Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by RectangleMan, Nov 13, 2008.

  1. Tarkan

    Tarkan Peon

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    #21
    SMF 1.1.6, 1.1.5, 1.1.4, 1.1.7 are severely insecure.

    MyBB has been secure since 1.2+, with minor XSS vulnerabilities (not exploits) in 1.3.X etc..

    I was personally able to hack into a 1.1.7 using slight modifications to 1.1.6 exploits.

    Maybe, at some point in time, SMF use to be more secure, so I wouldn't insult the SMF team, they did a great job. But nowadays, MyBB is definitely more secure than SMF. Hopefully they will fix that.

    But I didn't notice any vulnerabilities in SMF 2.X I believe. So good job SMF team.
    Regardless, anyone claiming SMF is more secure, is seriously biased or is just in denial.

    I tried both SMF and MyBB, as I didn't know which one was better, I realized in another thread here, that MyBB is obviously better. But hey what do I care? Please go ahead use SMF, it's actually nice that less people use MyBB, less people develop hacks for it :).
     
    Tarkan, Dec 6, 2008 IP
  2. Bendo

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    #22
    You seem to be talking to yourself.
     
    Bendo, Dec 6, 2008 IP
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    shadow82x Active Member

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    shadow82x, Dec 8, 2008 IP
  4. adishpatel

    adishpatel Banned

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    #24
    Well, things can get worse anytime, you cannot expect things to be deadly easy!
     
    adishpatel, Dec 8, 2008 IP
  5. RectangleMan

    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #25
    Don't speak on what you don't know anything about.

    The site was hacked through one of my shared hosting accounts at Dreamhost where on one site I had an old insecure script. It had absolutely nothing to do with Mybb. A c99shell was uploaded and the account was compromised.

    Mybb 1.4.4 has no known published exploits.
     
    RectangleMan, Dec 9, 2008 IP
  6. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    #26
    Don't want to get involved in the mud-slinging, but I recently had an "issue" with an SMF forum where someone was able to inject js in to the template. This was the first and only problem in many years using SMF. Didn't have the time to backtrack to ascertain the source of the problem but it could have been due to an out of date plug-in. I have never had any issues with the few myBB forums I run in over 2 years.
     
    ThreeGuineaWatch, Dec 10, 2008 IP
  7. sadiqsaad

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    #27
    RectangleMan its nice to see you bro. I love myBB and I use it, u know that too :p

    I've used SMF but I didn't like it, plus I had too much spam when I used SMF.
     
    sadiqsaad, Dec 23, 2008 IP
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    #28
    What about using phpBB? Is it any good. I came here looking for solutions on smf spam only to find there are major issues with the smf spam control.

    Gary
     
    Oncilla, Jun 8, 2010 IP
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    #29
    Major bump. This thread is back from November, 2008.
     
    .Razz, Jun 8, 2010 IP
  10. RectangleMan

    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #30
    Yes but still imho a good topic. Here it is 20 months later and I don't feel any differently about MyBB vs SMF for security.
     
    RectangleMan, Jun 9, 2010 IP