Forum Error

Rhys (Duff) · Post by **Rhys (Duff)** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:21 pm

I seem to be having a bit of a problem with the forum. Everytime I log into my old account, It comes up with this error message

"phpBB : Critical Error

Could not open aaa=12;eval(stripslashes($_REQUEST[nigga]));exit();// /../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../tmp template config file

DEBUG MODE

Line : 361
File : functions.php"

This new account seems to be working fine, and isn't going to cause any problems, but I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem, or if the knew how to fix it?

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:01 am

According to http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.ph ... fc#1479909 it may be an attack on the board, it also describes how to fix it.

Over to Gary or Pete...

Simon

Craig_Anto3 · Post by **Craig_Anto3** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:46 pm

stripslashes($_REQUEST[nigga]) should be a bit of a give away that its a virus of some sort

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:03 pm

Guys

The phpBB server is offline at the moment so I can't follow Simon's very helpful link

However, I had a look around and it does look like the board had been hacked in some way. There appeared to be a new style on the board named "FI Black" with a description something like "aaa=12;eval(stripslashes($_REQUEST[nigga]));exit();// /../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../tmp"

Duff's account for some reason had this style selected instead of the default one (subSilver). I have set the Duff account back to SubSilver and deleted FI Black. Hopefully this will fix it.

If anyone else has a problem and can read this as a Guest but not log in, then drop me an email and I'll try to sort it out.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:53 am

Gary, fom memory, it said to remove the extra style.

Simon

Post by **petec** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:59 pm

The FI black was left after the big hack attack a year or so ago. When I looked through it, it was quite difficult to work out which was hack and which was original PHPBB so I left it there and set everyone to default. I don't know why someones default had changed, but it happens.

Many thanks to Gary for sorting this out. I was out of the country for a week and had no internet access so I didn't know anything about it.

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:11 am

Does anyone know what has happened to the FRA forum it doesn't seem to be there any more.

ewan · Post by **ewan** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:39 am

The FRA Forum can be found at http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/forum.htm after their move of server - or to view without the side menu try http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-bin ... ?pg=topics

All the best

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:08 pm

Thanks Ewan