Be sure your hosts stay updated to the latest stable version 
and build.

Since you use cPanel you should know about "Hot Link 
Protection". ?  If you enable this, while these parasites can 
still HL to your images, they'll instead get a red "X" where 
your image should be on the webpage.  If you enable the HL 
Protection, be sure you populate the "URL's to allow access to" 
text box:

http://216.109.125.130
http://64.233.161.104
http://64.233.161.99
http://64.233.179.104
http://64.233.187.104
http://66.218.69.11
http://72.14.203.104
http://72.14.207.104
http://72.14.209.104
http://cc.msnscache.com
http://images.google.*
http://images.search.yahoo.com
http://search.msn.com/images
http://www.images.search.yahoo.com
http://www.search.msn.com/images

....so that when someone clicks on your "cached" link in the SE 
results your images will be still be displayed.  This allows 
the SE's cached servers access to your images on your webpages. 
No doing so would display red X's where all your images on the 
page should be.  Those IP addresses above are Google's image 
servers, and that * mark is indeed supposed to be there like 
that, that's a wildcard for any Google location (.ca, .au, .de, 
.it, etc.).  While I have a ton of non .com .org & .net domain 
extensions blocked in my IP Deny area, like loads on APNIC, 
LACNIC and RIPE, I certainly do NOT want to block any SE's bots 
because there may be a possibility that could affect their 
servers in the USA, and I'm not going to risk that.

Even with red X's on these parasites' webpages showing, you 
wouldn't believe how many of these morons STILL hot link!!  I'm 
always in a battle with the jerks at MySpace.com and Ebay. 
They just flat out REFUSE to tell their members this is illegal 
and against their TOS.  I keep telling them all they have to do 
is email the members and simply state "Hot linking is not 
allowed".  But noooooooooooooo, they won't do that, and now 
they are eventually going to be sued over it.

I've even told them they are WELCOME TO USE my images, just 
SAVE IT to their OWN SERVER or space, and give me a courtesy 
link-back!  Nope, they'd rather steal it and end up with a red 
X.  Bunch of spaz's.

Anyway.......if you enable the HL Protection, note that if you 
have any custom .htaccess redirects (like canonical www 
redirect for only ONE example and other custom "301" 
redirects), they will be OVERWRITTEN by the HL Protection!!! 
This is yet another cPanel bug!  What you have to do, is just 
open your .htaccess file, then enable/edit your HL Protection, 
THEN save the .htaccess file and it will be as it was.  This 
does NOT affect any redirects you may have added from within 
the cPanel interface itself, those are unaffected.  Cpanel 
can't handle complicated redirects from its interface, so it's 
those types that you have to add manually to your .htaccess 
file that will be overwritten, so you have to do this method.
-Clint

God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BubblyBabs"

If I understand this right, I had this happen to my site... 
Someone was
using the stat program from my website for their website...  I 
accidently
found this out by doing a search for my website (I do this 
periodically to
catch people who are direct-linking to images on my site, it's 
a huge
problems at times, esp with myspace users) and came across this 
persons
sites stats using my website cpanel program...  I inquired 
about it with my
webhost and the site stopped using the program but I never 
figured out how
they did it, I tried to reproduce it but couldn't...  This was 
more than a
year ago though...

Babs



> For those of you that have websites that use cPanel.
> -Clint
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> TITLE:
> cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
>
> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
> SA22555
>
> VERIFY ADVISORY:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/22555/
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