Finally back up. Spent some time souring the database and code for any other oddities the hacker introduced. Anywayz, here's what the notti boy/girl did...
- Changed "Discussion on Dramas" forum title and description into a floating HTML segment, which is the "hacked" message that some of you saw.
- Added an admin user called subzero.
- Set number of topics per page to 0, hence you get divide by zero errors and no topics in the forums nor inbox.
- Messed up some of the forum permissions to ADMIN only.. duh.. itchy fingers.
The above have been fixed. If more damage was done.. (hope not!) someone please point it out to me.
And, yes, the exploit was probably the "==" to "===" comparison code which gives the user admin access. Luckily, nothing much could be done via the admin panel. I've patched the forum to 2.0.13 manually. Hope all goes fine now! I'm gonna subscribe to whatever darn mailing list phpbb has for such updates.. :metaldevil:
- Changed "Discussion on Dramas" forum title and description into a floating HTML segment, which is the "hacked" message that some of you saw.
- Added an admin user called subzero.
- Set number of topics per page to 0, hence you get divide by zero errors and no topics in the forums nor inbox.
- Messed up some of the forum permissions to ADMIN only.. duh.. itchy fingers.
The above have been fixed. If more damage was done.. (hope not!) someone please point it out to me.
And, yes, the exploit was probably the "==" to "===" comparison code which gives the user admin access. Luckily, nothing much could be done via the admin panel. I've patched the forum to 2.0.13 manually. Hope all goes fine now! I'm gonna subscribe to whatever darn mailing list phpbb has for such updates.. :metaldevil: