Have the forums been hacked?


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You can't JUST blame the browser. Did you download the update released for this vulnerability that has been out since January?

Uh, yes. Unless you think that everyone in this thread that had virus warnings and popup windows did not have the patch installed. The patch apparently doesn't stop IE from downloading the WMF automatically and opening it in the picture and fax viewer. Why IE still opens wmf files without even asking is beyond me, especially IE7.

Yes I blame the browser. Firefox and Opera do not have any issue with this at all but IE went nuts when I visited the page. Oddly it made the little plonk sound and showed the blocked content bar, but it still downloaded the wmf file without my permission.

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All 2.1.6. boards are vulnerable.

That's not entirely true.

Matt said that the vulnerability has already been patched in 2.1.6, but if you've already been hit when you had 2.1.5 [like Neowin has been already], the hackers had left a back door for themselves hidden in one of your folders, most likely style_emoticons, apparently. Matt released a tool to check for foreign files.

The people at invision have been saying it's only people who have have their 2.1.5 installations exploited, but that still doesnt explain all the people with fresh 2.1.6 installations that are getting hacked. This is really out of control now. People are still able to inject iframes in 2.1.6 boards and they don't even need to make those malformed posts anymore.

Hello all.

Just to let you know, my forums were hit with the same vulnerability while I was running 2.1.4 a couple of weeks ago. I then did a completely fresh install of 2.1.6 and installed the 30/6 patch but got hit again. I've run the AV tool and nothing was found. The first time, my admin password was changed, but not the second time.

Kerio just reported this when I first logged into the forum (first time I seen Kerio in action, lol):

Technical details about the intrusion attempt:

Injector application: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Description: Internet Explorer

File version: 7.00.5450.4 (winmain(wmbla).060623-0309)

Product name: Windows? Internet Explorer

Product version: 7.00.5450.4

Created: 2006/6/20, 22:42:31

Modified: 2006/6/23, 10:38:40

Accessed: 2006/6/23, 10:38:40

Target application: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE

Description: Internet Explorer

File version: 7.00.5450.4 (winmain(wmbla).060623-0309)

Product name: Windows? Internet Explorer

Product version: 7.00.5450.4

Created: 2006/6/20, 22:42:31

Modified: 2006/6/23, 10:38:40

Accessed: 2006/6/23, 10:38:40

Address of injection: 0x7E2FCD5E

Plus I have been getting stack overrun windows.

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