Assigned ticket to user "Acyd Burn"
Action performed by Acyd Burn (Server Manager) on Dec 27th 2007, 16:02
I initially reported the issue here http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 5#p3591305
The check done at registration time of the username against the Word Censor table is doing a partial string match and not a word match.
As a result registrations are being denied because the username contains a partial string that matches a "word" in the Word Censor Table.
The problem statement is in funtions_user.php
if (preg_match('#(' . str_replace('\*', '.*?', preg_quote($row['word'], '#')) . ')#i', $username))
My own feeling on this is that registration should not check the Word table anyway (it is supposed to be a posting function) - particularly as the disallow usernames function allows the entry of words with leading and trailing wildcards.