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[joomla] Probe via search module?

Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 08:21:17 EST 2010


That is a VERY old issue from the PHP4 days... This script kiddie
should point their script over at Karjackistan or some such place
where everyone is still rocking Windows for Workgroups. Gah.

-- Mitch

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Web Project <web at kluger.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My log watch detected the following request on my Joomla site. --
>>
>>     index.php?module=search&q=./../../../../../../../../etc/passwd
>>
>> Is this sort of thing a known exploit?
>
> That is not even a joomla function.
> Joomla functions would be options=com_something&task=sometask&q=something
> It's more likely an exploit for some other set of PHP code and their just
> scanning every website for it.
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