Re: [Framework-Team] Re: FW: Plone site compromise epidemic!

2006-09-14 Thread Alexander Limi
Yeah, I just did a quick Google search and followed the first 150 links, and about 70-80% of the sites have already fixed this, and return a 404 when I follow the link (if you do this, remember to turn off JS first!) It's a minor issue, and I do think we nipped it in the bud before it becam

Re: [Framework-Team] Re: FW: Plone site compromise epidemic!

2006-09-14 Thread Alec Mitchell
To say these sites are "compromised" is a bit extreme. People who were allowed to create profiles (i.e. this only happens to sites where anybody can join) could take advantage of a minor XSS vulnerability to seed google requests. Additionally there was a apparently more common avenue of attack f

[Framework-Team] Re: FW: Plone site compromise epidemic!

2006-09-14 Thread Alexander Limi
It has been fixed, that's what the 2.5.1 and 2.1.4 releases were about. Full instructions are here: http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/clean-up-link-spam-on-your-site -- Alexander On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:54:25 -0700, Alan Runyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alan Runyan Enfold Systems,