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WHMCS Security Advisory for 5.x

By Chris / October 21st, 2013

WHMCS has released new patches for the 5.2 and 5.1 minor releases. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the WHMCS product. You are highly encouraged to update immediately.

WHMCS has rated these updates as having critical security impacts. Information on security ratings is available at https://docs.whmcs.com/Security_Levels

ReleasesThe following patch release versions of WHMCS have been published to address a specific privilege and SQL vulnerabilities:
v5.2.10
v5.1.12

Security Issue Information
These changes resolve security issues identified by public disclosure. The follow security issues have been addressed within the latest patches:
- Missing Cross Site Request Forgery Token checks for certain operations related to Product Bundles and Product Configuration
- SQL Injection viable due to improper validation of expected numeric data
- Enforce privilege boundaries for particular ticket actions


Important Fix InformationThese changes also include important functional fixes that were produced from previous security patches:
- SQL error in getting ticket departments (5.1 only)
- Mass mail client filter excluding users set to default language
- Admin clients list displaying multiple instances of the same record in certain conditions
- Prevent user input from manipulating IP Ban logic (5.2 only)

Mitigation
WHMCS Version 5.2
Download and apply the appropriate patch files to protect against these vulnerabilities.

Patch files for affected versions of the 5.2 series are located on the WHMCS site as itemized below.

v5.2.10 (full version) - Downloadable from the WHMCS Members Areav5.2.10 (patch only; for 5.2.9 ) - https://go.whmcs.com/242/5210_incremental
To apply a patch, download the files indicated above and replace the files within your installation.
No upgrade process is required.

WHMCS Version 5.1
Download and apply the appropriate patch files to protect against these vulnerabilities.

Patch files for affected versions of the 5.1 series are located on the WHMCS site as itemized below.

v5.1.12 (patch only; for 5.1.11) - https://go.whmcs.com/246/5112_incremental
To apply a patch, download the files indicated above and replace the files within your installation.
No upgrade process is required.



All versions of WHMCS are affected by this vulnerability, however only 5.1 and 5.2 will be provided updates per our Long Term Support Policy.

You can read more about our Long Term Support Policy here:

https://docs.whmcs.com/Long_Term_Support


This Security Advisory is in the process of being emailed to all active license holders.

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