Re: Security of phpBB

[Daniel <deeper () gmail com>]

Tom,

It pretty much breaks down to 3 questions:

1: will it be web facing at all (or are we looking at an internal server only)
2: Is this for company confidential information, or general chatter
3: What other products have you looked at?

To be honest, i'd recommend Phorum http://phorum.org/ as its far more
secure than phpBB (which incidentally i now use to teach people how
not to produce web applications)

Also, by adding another layer like mod_security,
http://modsecurity.org also helps

Daniel
OWASP.org

On 6/20/05, Moritz Naumann <info () moritz-naumann com> wrote:
> Tom Edwards wrote:
> > I am new to this list and to security in general so please excuse my
> > question. A friend told me that our forum software phpBB is not very
> > secure and told me about this. Where can I get information on that? What
> > must I do to make it secure?
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> many people are concerned about known and unknown security issues
> related to phpBB. There have been a lot of security issues with it in
> the past, have a look at
>   http://www.phpbb.com/security/final_reports.php
> (or search the FD archives) for some of the latest.
>
> The assumption many people make is that if so many vulnerabilities are
> constantly discovered on this software, it can be assumed that there
> still are many left and this application must thus be considered
> insecure in general.
>
> While I'm not saying this is a correct conclusion (and I'm also not
> saying it was not), much less security issues have been discovered on
> other wide-spread bulletin board softwares in the same time (which might
> also be related to other factors such as their licensing terms and
> pricing which make a comparison difficult, though).
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
> Moritz
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