Member only profile properties could be exposed under certain conditions

Published: June 14, 2010

Version: 1.0

Maximum Severity Rating: Low

Background

DotNetNuke refactored support for user profiles in 5.3.0.

Issue Summary

The code for the user profile properties has a bug where an unautheticated user could access member-only properties under certain configurations.

Mitigating factors

No member-only profile properties are exposed if all profile properties are set to member-only or admin.

Affected DotNetNuke versions

5.3.0 - 5.4.2

Non-Affected Versions:

All others

Fix(s) for issue

To fix this problem, you are recommended to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke (5.4.3 at time of writing).

Acknowledgments

Roger Selwyn

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