hacking payment plugins?

Discussion in 'Setting-up protection' started by jjenkins, Feb 3, 2008.

  1. awylie

    awylie aMember Pro Customer

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    I noticed this week while downloading site stats that there have been page request for some of the payment plugin files. This includes:

    linkpoint/linkpoint.inc.php
    secpay/config.inc.php

    I don't use these payment methods on my site. Is it possible that someone is trying to hack these plugins? If so, how do I discover their work and undo it? Is it possible to remove these options from my aMember install?

    I don't keep CC-info on my server. However, I don't want the site to be taken over or mined if I ever do.

    Any input or experiences with this is most appreciated.

    Thanks.
  2. tomfra

    tomfra Member

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    Take a look at this page: http://www.amember.com/p/Main/SecurityNote04

    According to that security note, the secpay and some other payment plugins in the older versions of aMember apparently had some security holes so I guess some wanna-be-hacker is trying their luck.

    If you are not using those plugins, it's probably safe to simply physically delete them. As far as I know it was only a problem if you had PHP configured improperly (e.g. register globals set to "on") so hardenning PHP should help.

    Tomas

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