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Guest Entering my Private Forum !! · **Released**: 09-16-2003

Hi ...

Once a day .. I checked ((Who's Online )) on my vBulletin 2.3.0 and I found that a (( Guest )) browsing a private forum which should viewable for the admins and moderators only !!

A double-checked the forum permission and it was OK ..

So how come that this Guest browse my private forum ? Is it a security hole in vBulletin Version 2.3.0 or it's just a bug that shows one of the moderators as a Guest ???

assassingod · #2 09-16-2003, 08:09 PM

More than likely to be a search robot. It can't see anything and is probably getting a no permissions error

Erwin · #3 09-17-2003, 06:28 AM

assassingod is absolutely correct.

Logician · #4 09-18-2003, 10:32 AM

If you didn't used its link in any page or thread publicly, it may not be a search bot because it wouldn't know the link to browse in the first place.

But I would suspect a mod/admin that accidently logged out and then visited the link (say via IE Favorites or History). As assassingod mentioned he can't see the forum anyway so no worries..

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