Are you saying this was on the CakePHP website or a random site you where
visiting?

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM, yoodey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm randomly browsing and get a website with Database error
> connection.
> It gave me error page : Warning (2): mysql_connect() [function.mysql-
> connect]: Access denied for user ...
>
> So i click on Context option and got this information.
>
> $config =       array(
>        "persistent" => false,
>        "host" => "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
>        "login" => "dbxxxxx",
>        "password" => "dbtxxx",
>        "database" => "dbxxxxx",
>        "port" => "3306",
>        "driver" => "mysql",
>        "prefix" => "",
>        "encoding" => "UTF8"
> )
>
> To avoid other people doing bad thing, i'm not showing real error
> information.
>
> I'm doing mysql command based on that information and guest what? I
> got full access!
> Curious with this error, i'm doing little research and found more than
> 1000 website mysql root access. (there many others, but i too tired to
> check it one by one ).
>
> This is very dangerous things which i'm big fans of CakePHP. I working
> on 50K/day visitors website powered by CakePHP which i don't wanna
> this thing happen to me.
>
> So, please tell me, which people in cakephp.org should be contacted
> because this issue. Opening ticket will leaked real information for
> the victim website.
>
> Thanks
>
> Yoodey
>
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