[37974] in bugtraq
Re: phpBB Worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve@uptime.org.uk)
Fri Dec 24 13:08:49 2004
Date: 24 Dec 2004 16:10:26 -0000
Message-ID: <20041224161026.27228.qmail@www.securityfocus.com>
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From: <steve@uptime.org.uk>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
In-Reply-To: <20041223125859.GE3029@schlund.de>
>This assumes you're seeing GET-requests, but there are other ways
>(e.g. POST) to exploit such code.
Whilst I understand your point, it should be noted that this vulnerability in phpBB is susceptible only to GET-based attacks: the vulnerable data is sourced from $HTTP_GET_VARS.
