You may have recently received an email from socialstrata.com/hoop.la stating that UBB is back as a hosted service located at ubbforum.com.

It's important to note that the product offered at ubbforum.com is NOT affiliated or authorized by our company. It's also very important to be aware that we do not support migration of your existing UBB.threads forums to this product that is NOT authorized or approved by our company. The results of a migration could effect your existing community's structure, search engine rankings, traffic, user experience, as well as potentially increase the costs of running your forum.

As stated above, we are NOT affiliated with ubbforum.com and have retained legal counsel to review this issue.

We have recently released UBB.threads version 7.5.7 and encourage everyone to upgrade their board to take advantage of the new features and security enhancements. We are also working hard on the next major release, version 7.6, that should be in beta testing in the next few weeks.

If you have any questions or concerns, please send us an email at info@ubbcentral.com

You may discuss this issue on this existing thread.

The UBB.threads development team has identified a serious exploit that can allow a standard user to obtain elevated permissions on UBB.threads forums and upload malicious files.

All 7.x versions should be upgraded to the latest 7.5.7 release which fixes this vulnerability. Version 7.5.7 is available to download in the UBB Central Members area:

https://www.ubbcentral.com/members/members.php

Additional Features and Fixes in 7.5.7:

Added Stop Forum Spam integration (http://www.stopforumspam.com) with 4 levels of protection. Special thanks to long time UBB member Gizmo for the initial code for his new feature.

Administrators can now manually add a new user in the control panel to the default sign up groups and send the user their login information.

A site wide custom Board Key is now available, allowing the UBB administrator to specify and further enhance security.

Revised cookie handling for returning members.

Removed Internet Explorer 7 directive in header and replaced with IE Edge to enhance compatibility with with Internet Explorer going forward.

Default Stock and Dark themes have been modified to be more lean and efficient.

Upgrader has been cleaned up to address incorrect errors for Language strings and non-existent files.

Upgrader now identifies older files that are not needed and should be deleted enhancing security and providing a cleaner install.

Control panel login page now shows helpful info about server and environment.

Admin control panel had been updated with a new cleaner look and feel.

New favicon.ico for both themes

Various bug fixes

The UBB.Threads development team has identified a serious exploit that can allow a standard user to obtain elevated permissions on UBB.threads forums and upload malicious files.

To protect yourself from the vulnerability, patches must be immediately applied if you are running version 7.3 and later. Patches for each version are now available for download in the member’s area of UBBCentral.com:

https://www.ubbcentral.com/members/members.php

To apply the patch upload the files provided in the patch to the appropriate directories in the UBB.threads installation on your server, overwriting the existing files.