It all started on Jan 14th when I was surfing milw0rm and came across this exploit: [www.milw0rm.com] I then remembered that phpbb.com was running PHPlist and went looking through my email to find the link to the script’s location. So I went to phpbb.com/lists and sure enough they were running a vulnerable version. Next I enabled my favorite program proxy program and tried [www.phpbb.com][ConfigFile]=../../../../../../etc/passwd and sure enough it included the etc/passwd

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