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Installation Directories

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

It has always been traditional that we delete installation folders upon the successful installation of a web application. Well, for me at least. Leaving it where it is (especially with directory listing turned on) is just suicide – possibilities are endless.

- Reset of admin account password
- Flushing of database
- Generation of publicly-accessible database dump
- Etc.

And that’s exactly what will happen to you if you think that you’re safe -

YourOwnBux installation screen at an undisclosed site

(Of course, I’ve informed the site administrator about it.)

I hope he’s learnt his lesson. And everyone else has learnt from his mistake too. :)

Edit: Yet another one

You'd think they'd at least follow instructions.

You'd think they'd follow instructions. But, no...

And again-

wooooot!

wooooot!

That aside, YourOwnBux has just suffered a full vulnerability disclosure from milw0rm. Expect more of its sites to get hacked pretty soon.