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Hi everyone,
I keep getting referrals each day (only one or two, but hey) from Google from somebody typing the following in as a search parameter: inurl:"com_smf".

I'm slightly concerned as to why somebody would be looking for any SMF forums wrapped in Joomla. Is this a potential security issue do you think? Is some script kiddie looking for SMF wrapped forums to take advantage of an exploit?

What do you think?

It's been going on for around 4 days now.

Cheers,
Chris.

well....there good be a variety of benign reasons.

Someone developing a website with SMF may want to see others and get ideas, or ....

yeah ..probably some exploit: there have been some just recently patched with 1.1.1 that allow uploaders to enter Javascript cloaked as an image ( gif) which could then lead your browser to...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=15


There is also a LONG OUTSTANDING code exposure issue with SMF as well, that allows anybody to see the source code of recently patched SMF files. (This is dangerous if, like some people, you actually hard code sensitive information INSIDE a php file, ie.