[support] IRC Hacking Files

Morbus Iff morbus at disobey.com
Thu Dec 15 19:09:40 UTC 2005


> The CPanel on my host only offers up to 4.6.3.

Is that the version you actually had installed? 4.6.3 was released August 
14, 2005 (http://drupal.org/drupal-4.6.3) - if you installed your Drupal 
site BEFORE that time, then you were not running the latest security 
fixes, and it may still be possible that you're susceptible to an XML-RPC 
exploit. For now, a reasonable workaround is to:

  * delete the xmlrpc.php file in your Drupal directory.

While this does nothing to prevent the bugs fixed in 4.6.4 and 4.6.5 of 
Drupal, it will specifically stop any XML-RPC vulnerabilities, at the 
expense of removing the ability to receive updates for blogging 
applications (per the blogapi.module).

If you have further concerns or questions regarding the security of your 
site in regards to Drupal, please contact security at drupal.org - the 
support list isn't the best place for this.

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