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"Patching" a Website?


tsoltysiak

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Hi,

 

I recently received some a disturbing message about my website.  Unfortunately it was in my cPanel filemanager, when I noticed a new file that I didn't place there, that had the following message :

 

"Note To Admin : plz , Patch Your Site ..."

 

It has me worried, as someone was able to upload a file to my website, the same one into every directory.  I'm assuming that means they also are able to over-write or edit my current files.  How do I protect my site from this?

 

Thanks for your help,

Thomas

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A few things:

 

1. Are you securing your web forms?  Are you sanitizing incoming $_GET and $_POST values?  Are you escaping data you're storing in your database?

 

2. Change your FTP password.  Be sure to choose a strong password.

 

3. Contact your hosting provider to see what additional steps they'd recommend, and to give them an alert to your situation.

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