I'm curious, where did you find these reports?

On Dec 16, 5:17 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are a number of security advisory reports online about pyforum,
> some from reputable sources.
>
> They report two vulnerabilities:
>
> 1) What they refer to as a backdoor but they describe as a different
> problem: an attacker can force pyforum to email a new password to the
> administrator (not to the attacker himself). If true this is not a
> major problem but it may be annoying for the administrator.
>
> 2) There is a XSS vulnerability. If true, is major security issue but
> it would be trivial to fix using XML(...,sanitize=True).
>
> I have not looked at the source code.
> Somebody should look into this and fix it or respond to the security
> advisory.
>
> Massimo

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