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Dolphin Smart Community Builder 6.1.4 Security Patch Release

Jul 30, 2008 by Mircea GoiacloseAuthor: Mircea Goia Name: Mircea Goia
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BoonEx  (the australian company behind Dolphin Smart Community Builder and other software) release a security patch for its dating and social network software.
This fixes the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability found the last week (Orca version allows inserting malicious code into a new topic title).

It is an easy patch to apply so you should do it immediately!Here are the steps to be followed:
* Backup the Orca and groups/orca folders (a regular backup never hurts anyway!)
* Get the patch named Dolphin 6.1 Patch 4. This is compatible with any Dolphin package: SmartPro, AdFree, Free
* Unzip the archive and upload its content to the folder where you have Dolphin installed (overwriting the files with the same names)

Example: Open the “orca” directory on your server, and at the same time open the “orca” directory in the extracted patch on your PC. Upload all files contained in the “orca” directory of the patch to your server’s “orca” directory overwriting those with the same names.

* Edit the build number in the inc/header.inc.php file, replacing $site['build'] = ’3′; with $site['build'] = ’4′;
* Go and login to the admin panel and recompile Orca languages as described there.

After all these steps you should have Dolphin 6.1.4 patch successfully installed.

The company can be contacted for support, if you need to at, support@boonex.com (you can also login to their Forums and ask questions  or see the Answers questions)

About Dolphin community builder
Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. Social networks, dating sites, content sharing portals…all these can be created very easily and deployed in an instant. You can have Myspace, Youtube, Flickr, Facebook and Match combined in one package.
With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly develop your very unique and successful website. Checkout the full features here!

It is written in PHP/MySQL so it runs well on Unix/Linux but also it can run on Windows (but you have to use Apache for Windows, not IIS web server).

See a demo of their product here: http://www.boonex.us/ (a demo of their admin section is here)

Download Dolphin smart community builder here!  (the free version, you can also order a paid version which will be ad free).

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Tags: boonex, community software, dolphin, security, social network

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