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| Stable release | 1.5.2 / November 5, 2016 |
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| Repository | BeehiveForum on GitHub |
| Operating system | Platform Independent |
| Platform | PHP/MySQL |
| Type | Internet forum software |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www |
Beehive Forum is a free and open-source forum system using the PHP scripting language and MySQL database software.
The main difference between Beehive and most other forum software is its frame-based interface which lists discussion titles on the left and displays their contents on the right.
Features
Other features which differentiate Beehive from most forums include:
- Targeted replies to specific users and/or posts.
- Safe HTML posting (malicious code is stripped out), rather than BBCode, via WYSIWYG editor, helper toolbar, or manual typing.
- A relationship system, allowing users to ignore users and/or signatures that they dislike.
- Powerful forum-wide and per-user word filtering, including a regular expression option.
- A flexible polling system, allowing public or private ballot, grouped answers, and different result modes.
- A built-in "light mode" that allows basic forum access from PDAs and web-enabled mobilephones.
Beehive is used by the popular UK technology website The Inquirer on the Hermits Cave Message Board.[1][2]
Security and vulnerabilities
On May 2007, Beehive Forum was selected as one of the most secure forums from a selection of 10 open-source software tested by Dragos Lungu Dot Com.[3]
On 28 November 2007, Nick Bennet and Robert Brown of Symantec Corporation discovered a security flaw related to Beehive's database input handling. The vulnerability could "allow a remote user to execute SQL injection attacks".[4][5] The flaw affected all versions of the software up to 0.7.1. The Beehive Forum team responded very rapidly with a fix released, in the form of version 0.8 of the software, later that day.[6]
Reviews
See also
References
- ^ Hermits Cave
- ^ Last week in Hermit's Cave - The Inquirer
- ^ Top 10 Open Source Forums - 12 Months of Vulnerabilities
- ^ Symantec Security Advisory YMSA-2007-014
- ^ Beehive Forum Post.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability - SecurityFocus
- ^ Project Beehive Forum at Sourceforge.net Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Beehive Forum on SourceForge.net
- Beehive Forum Help Wiki by ManicGeek Tech Portal
- Beehive feature list on ForumMatrix.org comparison website