On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Web Project <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > My log watch detected the following request on my Joomla site. -- > > index.php?module=search&q=./../../../../../../../../etc/passwd > > Is this sort of thing a known exploit? > That is not even a joomla function. Joomla functions would be options=com_something&task=sometask&q=something It's more likely an exploit for some other set of PHP code and their just scanning every website for it.
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