Showphoto.php not found or unable to stat

meissen

Joined: 2012-05-02
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Posted: Wed, 2012-05-02 13:41

I'm seeing this error message a lot in my Apache error logs. I tried searching but didn't yield any results. Any ideas on what is calling for this showphoto.php file? I don't even see it anywhere in my installation...
 
suprsidr
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Posted: Wed, 2012-05-02 14:41

does the log specify a referring page?

-s
 
meissen

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Posted: Wed, 2012-05-02 14:59

No, unfortunately not. I have the gallery in its own directory and I just see it saying "\gallery\showphoto.php not found or unable to stat."
 
suprsidr
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Posted: Wed, 2012-05-02 18:49

could be some bot looking for a known vulnerable script

create one and set its content to:
<p>Go away!</p>

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suprsidr
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Posted: Wed, 2012-05-02 18:51

Ah! that explains it.
googled showphoto.php
returned references to Photopost Pro a super crappy photo gallery app from the early 2000's and I'm sure it had vulnerabilities.

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meissen

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Posted: Wed, 2012-05-02 23:01

Ah, good idea. Should figure out how to set up a honeypot so any bot who tries to browse to it automatically gets IP banned...