No software is without its flaws, and PHP-Nuke is no exception. After a release, the large user community invariably finds problems and potential security holes. Furthermore, PHP-Nuke also contains features such as its forum, which is in fact the phpBB application specially modified to work with PHP-Nuke. phpBB itself is updated on a regular basis to correct critical security vulnerabilities or to fix other problems, and consequently the corresponding part of PHP-Nuke also needs to be updated. Rather than releasing a new version of PHP-Nuke for these situations, patches for its various parts are released.
ChatServ's patches from www.nukeresources.com are mostly concerned with variable validation, in other words, making sure that the variables used in the application are of the right type for storing in the database. This has been an area of weakness with many earlier versions of PHP‑Nuke. The patches are often incorporated into subsequent versions of PHP-Nuke so that...