Private reply visible

Hi,

There a dangerous problem – when users are allowed to post forum topics & replies without login / registration, replies set as private are visible to the public. It’s beacuse unregistered topic author id = 0, and logout user id is also 0, ergo logout user = topic author, thus can view private replies

Just change line 176 to this:

if( ( $topic_author != $current_user->ID && $reply_author != $current_user->ID && current_user_can( 'publish_forums' ) == false ) || $current_user->ID == 0 ) {

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