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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] A comparison of forum software from a security POV</H1>
    <B>Remco Rijnders</B> 
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    <I>Mon Sep 27 08:49:28 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:19:03AM +0200, Tux99 wrote:
&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I did a quick comparison of the most common forum software packages 
</I>&gt;<i> (both commercial and FOSS) from a vulnerability point of view.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Here are the results, from most vulnerable to least:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> grep -i phpbb sans-security_alert|wc -l
</I>&gt;<i>     723
</I>&gt;<i> grep -i vbulletin sans-security_alert|wc -l
</I>&gt;<i>     256
</I>&gt;<i> grep -i &quot;Invision power board&quot; sans-security_alert|wc -l
</I>&gt;<i>     238
</I>&gt;<i> grep -i mybb sans-security_alert|wc -l
</I>&gt;<i>     176
</I>&gt;<i> grep -i &quot;Simple Machines Forum&quot; sans-security_alert|wc -l
</I>&gt;<i>      58
</I>&gt;<i> grep -i fudforum sans-security_alert|wc -l
</I>&gt;<i>       7
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> All I can say, I'm surprised that the official Mandriva forum (which 
</I>&gt;<i> uses phpBB) is still standing... :-)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> And this confirms another thing: FUDforum is really a hidden gem.
</I>
That, or newer and/or less popular and thus less used.

Thanks for doing this check though :)

Remco
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