Awhile ago I posted about how annoying I found links from PHPbb sites due to the fact that the referrers didn’t help you one bit in isolating the page that was responsible for the link. For the past few weeks, on a daily basis, I get 5-6 mails from Wordpress that look like the following:
A user tried to go to http://pookzilla.net/wp/wp/2007/11/phpbb/+%5BPLM=0%5D+GET+http://pookzilla.net/wp/2007/11/phpbb/+%5B0,21691,27374%5D+-%3E+%5BN%5D+POST+http://pookzilla.net/wp/wp-comments-post.php+%5B0,0,273%5D and received a 404 (page not found) error. It wasn’t their fault, so try fixing it you shithead.
They came from http://pookzilla.net/wp/2007/11/phpbb/+%5BPLM=0%5D+GET+http://pookzilla.net/wp/2007/11/phpbb/+%5B0,21691,27374%5D+-%3E+%5BN%5D+POST+http://pookzilla.net/wp/wp-comments-post.php+%5B0,0,273%5D
I have no idea why this is happening. Is that page really on occasion generating such bogus links and referrers? I can’t see that happening but if not then what’s the real explanation? Is there some kind of intrusion bot attempting to gain access to that page as if it were a PHPbb system based on the title of the post? How very odd.
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1 Rob // Feb 23, 2008 at 5:01 pm
It’s likely a automated cross site scripting attack that doesn’t work on your version of PHPbb
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