User can change own rank

Bug #247484 reported by KyleO
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
phpns
Fix Released
Medium
KyleO

Bug Description

Users can change their own rank, elevating themselves to whatever predefined levels available.
This can be done the easy way, but just selecting the current user the client is logged in as, and simply modifying it.
Or, a more elaborate way, is to spoof the post data.

Tags: rank user
KyleO (k-p-osborn)
description: updated
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KyleO (k-p-osborn) wrote :

This is fixed in the newest update. Patch released, including all patches, can be found in this zip file- http://kyleosborn.com/phpns/patches/2.2.3.patch.zip
Fix includes disabling rank option list when modifying own user profile, and making a check right before updating the database.

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KyleO (k-p-osborn) wrote :

This is fixed in the newest update. Patch released, including all patches, can be found in this zip file- http://kyleosborn.com/phpns/patches/2.2.3.patch.zip
Fix includes disabling rank option list when modifying own user profile, and making a check right before updating the database.

Changed in phpns:
assignee: nobody → k-p-osborn
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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