[NovoCiv]

I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting but I was going to have the [hide] tags add a *hidden* Message here *hidden* inside, so I could preg_replace anything within the *hidden*s. The slight addition in clutter wouldn't be a very big deal to my mod staff if it means patching the vulnerability. The main section we use it for (mod applications) I just disabled searching.

I'd rather have a working tag right away than figure out a fix myself, as I still have quite the backlog of features to develop. If you tell me how you've fixed it I would be very grateful.

And to your question of "Who are you?", I used to be a mod at a ~50,000 member flash games website. When I got sick of trying to convince the administration to do things that make it more enjoyable for the members I quit and got my own vBulletin license, then made a website for most of the active members to go where we do everything we can to make it enjoyable. My only coding experience is an intro to Java university course, and I do most of the coding and development myself, so it's a lot of work. I basically look through source code, other mods, and php tutorials to figure out ways to make it do what I want to do.