Unexpected Error on login. No access to my.cnf

Submitted by JulianStirling on 2015-12-20

Everytime I try to login I get a message saying Unexpected Error. (Error at bottom of post) This seems very similar to the error in the post: webissues.mimec.org/node/470
The problem is this version of webissues is run on hosting where I cannot access the my.cnf file. Is there any other known workaround?

MySQL version : 5.1.73-log - MySQL Community Server
Web issues server version: WebIssues 1.1.4

The error is:
The following error(s) occured while processing the request:
Unhandled System_Db_Exception: Incorrect arguments to mysqld_stmt_execute in /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/db/mysqli/engine.inc.php on line 287
Stack trace:
#0 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/db/mysqli/engine.inc.php(129): System_Db_Mysqli_Engine->handleError(Object(mysqli_stmt))
#1 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/db/mysqli/engine.inc.php(90): System_Db_Mysqli_Engine->executeStatement('SELECT user_id,...', Array)
#2 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/db/connection.inc.php(256): System_Db_Mysqli_Engine->query('SELECT user_id,...', Array)
#3 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/db/connection.inc.php(322): System_Db_Connection->queryArgs('SELECT user_id,...', Array)
#4 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/db/connection.inc.php(309): System_Db_Connection->queryRowArgs('SELECT user_id,...', Array)
#5 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/api/sessionmanager.inc.php(72): System_Db_Connection->queryRow('SELECT user_id,...', 'admin', 0)
#6 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/common/users/login.inc.php(112): System_Api_SessionManager->login('admin', 'j12487896s', NULL)
#7 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/common/users/login.inc.php(59): Common_Users_Login->submit()
#8 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/web/component.inc.php(100): Common_Users_Login->execute()
#9 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/web/application.inc.php(77): System_Web_Component->run()
#10 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/core/application.inc.php(210): System_Web_Application->execute()
#11 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/system/bootstrap.inc.php(130): System_Core_Application->run()
#12 /homepages/path/i/hid/webissues/mobile/index.php(23): System_Bootstrap::run('Common_Applicat...', 'Common_Users_Lo...')
#13 {main}