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Is this a hacking attempt?
I found this in my logs:
http://www.xxx.xxx/category/xxx-Dealer-List/?ls=rav%204
which resulted in a page with this error:
XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://www.xxx.xxx/category/xxx-Dealer-List/?ls=rav%204
Line Number 1, Column 41:<?xml version=‘1.0’ encoding=‘utf-8’ ?>No Results Found.
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Does anyone know what ?ls= is/does?
TIA
Cambo
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Re: Is this a hacking attempt?
It’s not something that’s built-in to textpattern. It could be one of the plugins you are using. Are you using live-search? Maybe that’s it.
The query string translates to a passed parameters of “rav 4” (%20 is a url-encoded space), so I don’t think it has anything to do with a hacking attempt. More likely a plugin with a little bug (whether that’s a security issue or not cannot be decided with the little information you gave).
Oh, and if this is the XML-error message that is created by your browser (the difference in colours to your regular site, should be clear give-away), then nothing at all may be broken or buggy. It could just be something that’s not entirely standards cmpliant, yet still manages to work (like 95% of the web).
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Re: Is this a hacking attempt?
Hi. Yes you’re right. I have live search installed. I have just realised that it does a search each time a letter is typed.
Thanks for your quick response.
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