On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 17:17 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 4:38 PM -0400 7/19/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
> >On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 16:31 -0400, tedd wrote:
> >  > No problem -- I had the data backed-up anyway. I figured that someone
> >>  would do what you did and I was ready for it -- it was easy enough to
> >  > fix.
> 
> -snip-
> 
> >What do you mean backed up? I just replaced the filler data on the page
> >with some filler JavaScript that basically did the following:
> >
> ><script>document.body.innerHTML = 'Rob was here';</script>
> >
> >I didn't do anything to your server files. It was easily remedied by
> >loading the page with JavaScript disabled.
> >
> >I hope you didn't think I tainted your filesystem. I wouldn't do that
> >even as a joke.
> 
> Well, that's not what happened. All the data shown here --
> 
> http://www.webbytedd.com/a/easy-page-db/
> 
> -- is pulled directly from my database.
> 
> When you put:
> 
> <script>document.body.innerHTML = 'Rob was here';</script>
> 
> into the first paragraph and filled the remaining paragraphs with 
> large hunks of text and clicked "save", all the previous data was 
> replaced with your additions. Everything I had there was gone.
> 
> When I inspected the dB, the only data there was yours.

:)

> Fortunately, I had created a sql dump before showing this page to 
> anyone because I knew that whatever anyone put into that page, would 
> go directly into my dB -- so I expected some changes. I just had not 
> expected such a large change nor someone placing code in it.
> 
> As you can imagine, it could have been a lot worse for me -- so 
> thanks for enlightening me as to hazards of leaving something that 
> insecure open for inspection.

Wasn't it just placeholder data? It looked like latin.

Cheers,
Rob.
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