Forum Database error

sjr4x4 · #1 (**permalink**) 25-01-12, 11:25 AM

Couple of people have flagged an error message they are getting, especially if you select new posts.

Looking into it, and will hopefully have it fixed asap!

sjr4x4 · #2 (**permalink**) 25-01-12, 11:37 AM

Turns out its a security exploit for VBSEO and has hit multiple forums, looking at a fix now

sjr4x4 · #3 (**permalink**) 25-01-12, 12:56 PM

Didn't need that this morning!!

Downside of running off the shelf software

A security hole was found in the forum software, specifically the SEO plug in side of it, which allowed some git to run a shell script and knock out our database.

There's a number of vbulletin threads running, as it's impacted a few forums, incase anyone has their own vB forum.
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...d-to-red/page3

Plus it didn't help that we were running an older version of vB and an unsupported version of vBSEO.

So have disabled vBSEO, and upgraded vB to 3.8.7 which has resolved the issue, but you may notice ugly unfriendly URLs!

Currently awaiting the activation link for the latest vBSEO code, so when that arrives, I'll upgrade that, which may be a short outage later on.

Time for a sandwich!

sjr4x4 · #4 (**permalink**) 25-01-12, 01:27 PM

vBSEO updated now as well.

Everything seems to be running ok, so if anyone finds any probs, feel free to reply here or PM me

mrb · #5 (**permalink**) 25-01-12, 07:19 PM

Another crisis passes me by.

sjr4x4 · #6 (**permalink**) 25-01-12, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrb

Another crisis passes me by.

Don't panic Mr Mannering! Been a while since I had a problem a reboot didn't fix

Dreamraven · #7 (**permalink**) 26-01-12, 08:45 AM

I was kinda worried about it, but knew you would sort it somehow. Any way of tracking the git that did this?

sjr4x4 · #8 (**permalink**) 26-01-12, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dreamraven

I was kinda worried about it, but knew you would sort it somehow. Any way of tracking the git that did this?

Another forum did, but I lost the post. India based peeps with too much time on their hands!

Prob hired by vBulletin and vBSEO to make sure our licenses are upto date...

Dreamraven · #9 (**permalink**) 27-01-12, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sjr4x4

Another forum did, but I lost the post. India based peeps with too much time on their hands!

Prob hired by vBulletin and vBSEO to make sure our licenses are upto date...

They would do that?

sjr4x4 · #10 (**permalink**) 27-01-12, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dreamraven

They would do that?

Forgot to add my cynical smiley

ahem, for legal reasons.. nahhhh course not

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