Gabriel Harper's Blog

This is a completely portable PHP script that fetches similar threads from a vBulletin forum. It does not require global.php or any other vBulletin scripts to run. The script uses full score matching, and supports search engine friendly URLs made by vBSEO and other custom formats.

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Those tycoons over at vBSEO released a free Google Analytics widget for vBulletin users codenamed LiveStats. This free widget displays a JavaScript widget with comprehensive Website statistics from Google Analytics. I don’t plan on publishing all my traffic statistics, but they can be kept private and LiveStats gets definite kudos for using sparklines!

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This is a simple way to add social Web icons to vBulletin posts that link to a member’s social networking profiles like Digg, Facebook, etc. You can easily add custom user profile fields from vBulletin Admin CP that let users add their profile URLs in their User CP. For your convenience I also zipped up 19 social Web icons that you can download for your vBulletin forum.

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The latest Jelsoft security bulletin, dated this August 18th, 2008, has announced the discovery of a new XSS flaw related to JavaScript escaping. This flaw could allow unauthorized users to carry out unauthorized actions or obtain access to a user’s account. vBulletin patch releases 3.7.2 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL4 have been released to address the new XSS flaw, discovered by Federico Muttis.

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Jelsoft just announced a new patch level release for vBulletin 3.7.1 and 3.6.10. vBulletin 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2 are intended to address the deeper issues behind the XSS flaw first noted in vBulletin 3.7.1 PL1 and 3.6.10 PL1. According to the Jelsoft release annoucement 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2 fixes an XSS flaw affecting the URL redirection system in vBulletin.

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Jelsoft has just announced a security update for vBulletin forum software that resolves a cross-site scripting (XSS) error. These are patch level fixes for the existing vBulletin 3.7.1 and 3.6.10 versions that focus on the XSS flaw.

According to the Jelsoft announcement:

…it is difficult to exploit the XSS flaw, and the potential for exposure and damage is limited…

However, the implications of the flaw are not entirely clear in the announcement. Has anybody out there had problems with this cross-site scripting error?

Approximately one month after the vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold release, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. has released a round of bug fixes and improvements in the vBulletin 3.7.1 update. Many vBulletin owners have still yet to upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0 so this is a good time to jump right to the new version. Let’s look at what’s different in vBulletin 3.7.1.

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Jelsoft just released vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold on April 29th, right alongside the new vBulletin price changes. Good timing on their behalf, because now there is even more motivation to upgrade those licenses and buy some new ones! Starting immediately vBulletin license owners will be able to access vBulletin 3.7.0 from the member’s area.

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Jelsoft just announced a bunch of changes in their pricing scheme. They must have read my blog about whether vBSEO is worth the money and decided they could charge more! While not a huge increase, it’s enough to make me shake my head as I now run several vBulletin forums. That’s the nature of business though, and hopefully Jelsoft will continue to improve their software and make use of all that extra cash.

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I’m taking the plunge with vBSEO on Fury-Tech Forums. $149 for vBSEO is almost twice as expensive as a leased vBulletin license, so like many vBulletin owners I’m tentative to say the least. To make things worse, they want $117 to remove vBSEO branding from your forum. On the bright side of things, I should have a reliable SEO solution for vBulletin – where Jelsoft is really lacking in my opinion.

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More fun in the Webmaster world of updates. Jelsoft today announced vBulletin 3.6.10, including various backported bugfixes from 3.7.0 but primarily to fix a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in vBulletin 3.6.9.

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