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phpBB Worm: Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a

Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: 20041221112101615

Virus Alerts

A warning to all phpBB forum administrators: A worm is spreading by taking advantage of a vulnerability in versions of phpBB older than 2.0.11. Perl.Santy infects all .asp, .php, .htm, .jsp, and .shtm files with it's own code. There is (currently) no threat to visitors of the infected site.

An infected forum will be defaced with the words "This site is defaced!!!" and "NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm generation".

More information about this worm can be found at Kaspersky and pcpro.co.uk.

For information on upgrading the phpBB board, visit phpBB.com.