I recommend that you upgrade to phpBB 2.0.11. Your current version makes it rather easy for both hackers and worms to infect your server.
The highlight vulnerability, which exists in your forum version, allows worms to execute arbitary code on your server.
You can test it yourself with this perl script:
shhhh....now they know!!!
Yea a pm to the admins might have been smarter, thanks for the heads up though!
iv been hearing about this
although the code looks like it uses google and i remember reading that theyve fixed it so it cant do that
We had this guy over on RUST as well but I didn't realise the problem existed here. He seems to very dedicated towards his 'job', ta for the info again mate..
Correct, that code uses Google and they have prevented that now. The exploit however is still there. Google was used to find exploitable sites.
You can do it manually by doing a search and then using highlight. Through the highlight you can make an SQL-injection. You can fix this by removing the url decoding(at the highlight html parsing) in viewtopic.php.
True. A design forum I hang out in was hacked a few weeks ago. Of course we found out the hacker and thus lets just say that reperations have been served... harshly...
Hopefully Mikey backs this forum up! D:
Hopefully Mikey *reads* this forum! D:
but of course i do.
on it
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