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Patch for Accidental Demotion

miqrogroove - 3-19-2009 at 02:19 PM

Issue #301

Bug Source: XMB, all versions.

Symptoms: In the Members Panel, changing the user status of all Super Administrators at the same time will permanently block access to all related features. A similar bug was introduced into the editprofile script of version 1.9.11.

Security Impact: None.

Workaround: A MySQL database client such as phpMyAdmin can be used to repair member status settings.

Fixed By: XMB-1.9.11.05.zip and later are not affected.

Patch: Attachment: XMB-1.9.11-last-sadmin.patch.txt (4kB)
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Collateral Changes: Super Administrator accounts cannot be deleted after installing this patch. You may demote them, submit changes, and then deletion is permitted.