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Hacked by (and at!) the Boys of Brazil
SecurityAdeptCoach writes "My site was attacked by 201.0.20.25 (a Brazilian ISP) using www.anjolinux.hpg.com.br and bi0s.8bit.co.uk. They succeeded in overwriting my index.php file using a bug in My_eGallery.

These guys have struck other php-nuke sites before and still haven't found anything better to do with their time!

I've added them to my banned list and fixed the security hole in the module.

It's previously been reported as an exploit that uses the $basepath variable in the displayCategory.php file. And that's exactly how these kiddo's got in.

The code is equally vulnerable to exploiting the $adminpath variable in the same file. And may be vulnerable to similar exploits in other files throughout the module.

The fix is to replace all of the instances of either variable with the actual path (for example, the basepath is usually modules/My_eGallery, pretty straight forward!)"
Posted on Sunday, February 08 @ 18:04:36 CET by Zhen-Xjell
 
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Re: Hacked by (and at!) the Boys of Brazil (Score: 1)
by pointman on Sunday, February 08 @ 19:46:48 CET
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The kiddies are using Google to find these vulnerable installations.




Re: Hacked by (and at!) the Boys of Brazil (Score: 1)
by decker on Monday, February 09 @ 10:33:48 CET
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Hi!

Where can i get the security patched version?

dec



Re: Hacked by (and at!) the Boys of Brazil (Score: 1)
by Jeruvy on Monday, February 09 @ 13:06:51 CET
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Yes, google is a great way to find poorly configured web servers to attack. Sad to say that most scanning tools take a back seat to a 'search engine'...

J.



Re: Hacked by (and at!) the Boys of Brazil (Score: 1)
by decker on Tuesday, February 10 @ 17:27:44 CET
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Is the displayCategory.php the only file that needs to be patched? I see alot of other $basepath's in the other files in the /public/ directory.

dec.


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