April 30, 2003
formmail

Tired of those spammers looking for formmail vulnerability?

My count for April is 138 unique hits.. this is one solution..

This formmail.php script will send a complaint report to a visitors ISP and/or just to you when a visitor triggers it in the following ways...[more]

[Link via Jeremy]

Posted April 30, 2003 08:14 PM in Geek Stuff
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Comments
On May 1, 2003 12:31 AM Scott St. John added:

Bless you for finding this! I had 120 attempts on my servers today looking for formmail.cgi. Sure beats the heck out of grepping the logs.

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On May 2, 2003 10:39 PM Harald added:

select remote_host from access_www_cfrq_net where request_uri like '%formmail%';

fed into a wrapper around iptables works for me :-)

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On May 8, 2003 05:04 PM unixbaby added:

Hey thanks for this useful script. I just started my own web hosting services. I guess i can apply this to provide some extra security. Keep up the good work.

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