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Re: Wiki hacked?



In message <[🔎] 20050929141831.GL15930@xios> you wrote:
>
> Ther is stuff in the apache2 error log which looks suspicious:
> [Wed Sep 21 04:58:01 2005] [error] [client 217.116.136.9] [Wed Sep 21 04:58:01 2
> 005] view: Argument "2 %7|pwd" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at /var/www/twiki
> /lib/TWiki/UI/View.pm line 110.

That's the "TWiki INCLUDE function allows arbitrary shell command execution"
problem, see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiSecurityAlerts

> But these errors seem to have been going on for a long time so are probably just harmless
> errors.

Not at all. Somebody has been running unauthorized commands  on  your
server.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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