An security exploit in osCommerce allows any to get into admin are and lot of things like view confidential information about orders, customers, upload files etc. Immediate fix is needed in ALL versions of osCommerce.
See the screen shot to see how information can be seen without username password.
You can more details and fix of the issue on http://www.infotales.com/oscommerce-cre-loaded-security-issue-allows-access-admin-area/
Yes the future belongs to Magento. With its growing community and great features that keep coming, it will eat up the most open source ecommerce software like osCommerce, CRE Loaded.
See my new post http://www.infotales.com/magento-the-platform-for-growth/ to learn about Magento.
In my recent post i have mentioned how to track internal site searches on OSCommerce and CRE Loaded, to see what people are searching. This post is http://www.infotales.com/track-visitor-site-searches-oscommercegoogle-analytics/.
For more CRE Loaded related updates see http://www.infotales.com
Well MySQL is full featured, one of the most famous and widely used database server. MySQL is open source it means its free. Being a cross platform server its being used for different OS like Linux, Windows, MAC etc. MySQL features include support for views, stored procedures, replication etc etc.
Most of the free web applications like osCommerce, joomla, magento, durpal etc are using MySQL. MySQL is also being used by large enterprises like Yahoo, Google, FaceBook etc etc.
To see more details visit mysql.com
I have got my cre loaded forum password back from cre loaded live support. In previous posts i mentioned that password forgot page on cre loaded forums was not working and never got any password email.
So as last resort i tried live chat available on cre loaded site, and it worked. I got my password reset in just 5 minutes due to friendly live chat representative.
The post have been moved to http://www.infotales.com/cre-loaded-product-listing-bug-fix/.
For more CRE Loaded bug fixes and updates keep visiting http://www.infotales.com/
Post have been moved to new URL http://www.infotales.com/seo-urls-addon-for-cre-loaded/.
For more SEO and CRE Loaded related post please visit my new blog.
I was surprised to find full PHP error messages exposed on CRE Loaded Forums. The error message found was
Warning: file_get_contents(./forums/Your_Account.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /*******/com_jmrphpbb/controller.php on line 78
I am not posting full path of the file for possible security risk.
Since forums have been moved to new site a lot of issues are appearing few of them are listed in Irritating bug in CRE Loaded forums
