"Or had you already figured that much out and were after more detail
about exactly how that crack attempt was supposed to work within
Joomla?"

Ultimately I would have liked to be able to replicate their attack on
my local host so, I can fully test it and patch it. I guessed they
were trying to output data from jos_users. If I can't work out and
replicate their sql it is no biggie, as I'm pretty sure forcing an
integer stops this vunerability in it's tracks.

On Oct 11, 3:55 pm, Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/10/11 matt_thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I would still like to understand what this hacker is doing,
>
> Not knowing anything about Joomla, it looks to me like they are trying
> to query a list of usernames and password hashes from your site, and
> getting your gallery component to output them to the client.
>
> After that they can presumably crack the hashes offline, then hijack
> the user accounts.
>
> Or had you already figured that much out and were after more detail
> about exactly how that crack attempt was supposed to work within
> Joomla?
>
> --
> Cheers
> Anton
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