Hello,

Last night, I decided to close down my website after 3 months, due to lack of interesting contents and low security. Today, when I woke up, I realized that someone else read my mind and did the job for me.

What happened was that he changed index.php on my host to some static html with some funny messages on it. I knew that my website was not safe against XSS attacks, so my first guess was that they use XSS attacks. However, I don't have any input form on my home page.

I went to cPanel and checked the modification date of index.php and in my wonder it was for a few days ago when I updated it by myself. Note that, The permission of file was 644.

Since the hacker left his email and his nickname, after googling I found a website, where it showed all attacks by him. Then all of a sudden, I noticed that my weblog under a subdomain of my website was hacked, too.

My weblog is a wordpress one. After downloading everything on my computer and doing a grep, I found that wp-config.php was changed to the same static page. Also, the modification date was for Dec 11, 2009 when I installed the weblog.

I'm very confused now. I can't even figure out what the problem is. Since it happened to both my code and wordpress, there could be something wrong with either PHP or my host.

Any idea what just happened to me?

PS. I'm going to totally forget about PHP and develop my new application on Django.

Lots of things possible, RFI being the first thing that comes to mind.
Without more clues it'll be impossible to say though.
Found any interesting loglines?

I just looked at the websites that were hacked by this guy. After pinging a few of them, I realized they all have the same IP address, which was the same as my IP address.

Called the tech support of my host, and they confirmed the issue with their servers configurations.

I know my code isn't that secure, but this attack was way too crazy for my code.

Interesting, who was the host? What version of Apache, php, etc. Was the host running this is always a great chance to see if anything can be learned, at minimum about a particular hosts security, lol.

Inmotionhosting.

Apache: 2.2.10 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.6
MySQL version 5.0.67-community-