Re: forum.php spam pages

Reini Urban <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.wiki.phpwiki.talk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[oops, wrong list initially]

Reini Urban schrieb:
> Philip J. Hollenback schrieb:
>> Please approve the message I posted to phpwiki-talk a couple days ago:
> 
> Sorry, I don't see your message in my admin interface which goes back to 
> middle of July.
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> From: "Philip J. Hollenback" <[email protected]>
>>> Date: August 10, 2008 9:39:01 AM PDT
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: forum.php spam pages
>>>
>>> I've got my phpwiki (www.hollenback.net) locked to all users except 
>>> myself for adding or editing pages.  However, some spammer continues 
>>> to exploit some phpwiki bug or error in my config to create bogus 
>>> forum.php pages.  These pages just contain lists of spam lnks.  One 
>>> gets created about once a week.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing this, and any suggestion for how I can fix it?  
>>> I know this is vague but I'm not sure where the hole is.  I've had my 
>>> wiki running for quite a while with no problems so my first suspicion 
>>> is this is exploiting a hole in phpwiki.

Please remove lib/plugin/AddComment.php,
lib/plugin/WikiBlog.php and lib/plugin/WikiForum.php.

These plugins can be used by spammers.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/  http://murbreak.at/

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