Administrative and Maintenance Tools - AdminCP News as Posts or PMs by BOP5 (Get your Admin CP News PMed to you!)

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Live Demo: ACP News: Potential vBulletin Exploit (vBulletin 4.1+, vBulletin 5+)

vBulletin pushes important news items to your Admin CP News Section. Some important items that get pushed are new versions of the software, and more importantly, notice of exploits and security patches. If you don't check your Admin CP regularly it could be days, even weeks before you see important notices. This can leave your site unprotected and vulnerable to hacking.

This mod will check the news every hour and at your option PM, and/or post the news to your forums. The idea is to PM one or more Admins and/or post in your staff forum so everyone is aware of the news.

Each option is independently controlled-

• PM one or more users
• Post a new thread in a forum of your choice
• Post a new post into an existing thread of your choice

Note- The first time the mod runs it will pull all old news (usually 5 to 6 items) so you will get a "flood" of PMs or posts. After that initial flood is over the old news is recorded in the database as having been delivered and you won't get multiple posts/PMs again unless vBulletin puts out more than one news item as a time. They rarely post Admin CP news, it may be weeks or months between updates.

This mod creates the Scheduled Task called "AdminCP News as Posts or PMs" that is set to run hourly. You can adjust the timing by editing the task in Scheduled Task Manager.

This mod does not use phrases- News is delivered in English only as it is only posted in English.

Another Note- The nature of vBulletin scheduled tasks requires traffic on the board to work. If you have a forum with little traffic (no one views it) then scheduled tasks will often get skipped.

Compatible and tested with VB 3.8.x and VB 4.x.x. May work with older versions of VB 3.x as well but not tested.

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[Ba'al]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Sending you a PM...

I got it,uploading issue on my part,it's fixed.

[DemOnstar]

Cheers Joe, all clear now. Working.

One thing, I think there is a spelling error at the bottom.
User ID of New Post [S]Poser[/S] Poster?

Thanks.

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to 1.0.1. The news from this latest 5.x exploit now works- it seems an invisible character was breaking the string at some point- the fix now clears out all but letters, numbers, and required punctuation.

Also fixed the typo pointed out by DemOnstar. :up:

[Robru]

Thanks, this is very usefull

[McGyver]

This should become a built in feature in vB as soon as possible.

I've created JIRA improvement request VBIV-15812.
Let's cast some votes to make this part of vB.

I hope Joe doesn't mind .

[dougdirac]

Originally Posted by McGyver

This should become a built in feature in vB as soon as possible.

I've created JIRA improvement request VBIV-15812.
Let's cast some votes to make this part of vB.

I hope Joe doesn't mind .

Exactly! Voted.

[DemOnstar]

Impossible not to vote....

BOP5 is proactive. Doing something that the rest of the whole vB team are not!

Hats off to ozzy47 also...
These 2 guys could run the whole show in my estimation...