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blakespot

03-19-2007 08:01 PM

my vB forums have been hacked - help

I am running vB 3.5.2 on Linux (with a patch from 3.5.3 I believe). Yes, I need to upgrade.

Was hacked: -removed-

Can you make suggestions to start? Thanks. No new users listed in the administrator with admin rights, but there is a suspicious high-ID entry in table VBADMINISTRATOR.

blakespot

Look at source for page now - last line:

Code:

                        <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">

                        <tr valign="bottom">

                                <td><a href="#" onclick="history.back(1); return false;"><img src="iSkin/misc/navbits_start.gif" alt="Go Back" border="0" /></a></td>

                                <td>&nbsp;</td>

                                <td width="100%"><span class="navbar"><a href="index.php?" accesskey="1">iPod Hacks Forums</a></span> 

        <span class="navbar">&gt; <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=1"><meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=http://www.enyenimix.com/hacked.html'></a></span>

Where is that loaded from?

blakespot

nexialys

03-19-2007 08:11 PM

someone edited your forum title and replaced the text with a redirect...

that's the one thing you have to edit.. the forumid #10.. change its title.

blakespot

03-19-2007 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nexialys (Post 1207598)

someone edited your forum title and replaced the text with a redirect...

that's the one thing you have to edit.. the forumid #10.. change its title.

Ya I found that a few mins ago. But how did they do it? Did someone feed a URL to the system that exploited a hole? I have 2 moderators but I don't think they have forum name change rights. No other admins. No way someone just guessed my password.

Thoughts? Thanks.

blakespot

nexialys

03-19-2007 08:42 PM

this is what we call an exploit... ;)

blakespot

03-19-2007 08:42 PM

Also, I changed them back in the VBFORUM table, but the page still renders with the redirrects as the forum titles?! Is there some cache mechanism I must flush? Thanks.

blakespot

nexialys

03-19-2007 08:50 PM

you have to edit it from the admincp, not the database... and to be sure, post a new thread in that forum so the cache is updated there too.. :)

blakespot

03-19-2007 08:59 PM

I can't edit it from the adminCP - the frame redirects to the hack site, as it renders the title as HTML, forcing a redirect... Can I not flush the cache another way? I've changed the names in the DB. Thanks.

Will but and upgrade to latest tonight... If I can get this clean first.

blakespot

Adrian Schneider

03-19-2007 09:08 PM

I would be more worried about how they edited the forum title in the first place...

Go into your database and remove the redirect, and then go into ACP > Maintenance > Update Counters > Rebuild Forum Information.

blakespot

03-19-2007 09:22 PM

Thanks - I'll update tonight.

blakespot

blakespot

03-21-2007 01:57 PM

Upgraded to 3.6.5. Hopefully that exploit was addressed. I see reports of a Calendar vulnerability of that sort, but can't find reference to a forum-title vulnerability...

blakespot

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