If you allow users to upload flash files to be played through anymedia, you're asking for big problems. A malicious user could easily trick you or your members into giving up their username & password for your forum.

In the event that they trick an ADMIN, moderator or other superuser into giving up their login information, then this could obviously cause a lot of problems.

We don't allow users to post using the [media] tags. It's just admins, mods, and other staff. I'm not that stupid

I didn't say I expected free updates for life. Had you taken the effort to read a few pages back, I had said that I and those who use this hack would appreciate a "stability" update to make sure that it works on 3.6. And if you would have taken the time to look at the first post, Crist states that he does not know if he will update the hack or not. If I knew PHP I would do it in a heartbeat. Perhaps someone else will update the hack, I don't know. Que sera, sera.

Depending on the forum audience, it should be fine to allow the media tags.

As long as they are mature enough to know that it's possible that they will likely see something they might wish they hadn't once in awhile. :P

But it's allowing .swf (and other macromedia flash type) files to be played that is the problem. A person could easily create a flash file that would automatically redirect the browser upon loading. They could redirect it to a page that looks just like your forum login screen, steal the password & log the user user back in as if nothing happened.

The files from places like youtube, google video, etc when played through their respective players are flash & could pose the exact same problem.... but I seriously doubt that google or youtube will attempt to do anything malicious to your forum.


I don't need to look at the first post to know that authors of any of these free hacks are subject to disappear at any time. How's that for stability? :P

I understand what you're saying, but every time you click "INSTALL" you have to understand that you are taking and accepting a large number of risks.

If you're really worried about it, then don't install what you (or your programmers) can't audit & maintain.


The only thing that is really guaranteed is the base Vbulletin code.... and they do a pretty fine job :)

But you pay annually for updates to Vbulletin.

If you didn't, you could be sure that the Vbulletin wouldn't have anywhere near as many updates and timely fixes.

Anyway I wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so Vbulletin integrates something like this natively. If they don't, their competitors probably will & then vbulletin will have to. ;)

I don't know if anyone else has looked into this, but those of you having problems with YouTube on AnyMedia might want to look at this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...t=Media+BBCode

Edit: I just found a Google Video BBCode that was already made.. here it is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=120212

Hopefully this might help someone who's having problems with these two until there is an update to the anymedia

I installed on my 3.6 board..

Everything working fine but for Google Videos i got message Error: unsupported media type.

anyone for help?

I posted how to get google video to work. But you have to use googles player. Which is no big deal IMO. Working fine on a 3.6 board and added some other sites to it.

it doesnt show a videos in IE, in firefox it works fine

vb 3.5.4

It worked fine for me, but one thing I've noticed is that with the .flv files I have hosted that they stop showing up in the original post after a couple days! I can add a new post with the exact same link in the thread and it'll show up again in that post.

yeah i posted about that before but he failed to update it also dont update your post cache either or you will have to edit all your videos again