invisible user and thread title !!

[cafeman]

hi


lastnight one new user has registered in my forum with

hidden user which i can't see and has posted his 1st thread

with hidden title !!

is it hacker or somebody using specific code to perform that

work ??

[Steve Machol]

Hard to say without seeing what you're talking about. Do you allow HTML posting or in the sigs?

[WetWired]

Maybe he used character 160 for both? (160 is the padding character--a shorter space) In most apps etc, this is not recognized as being whitespace.

[cafeman]

username is hidden

am not allowing sig html

and check user # 3023

http://www.arabscafe.com/vb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=3023

[Steve Machol]

Sorry, I can't read Arabic.

[filburt1]

Originally posted by WetWired
Maybe he used character 160 for both? (160 is the padding character--a shorter space) In most apps etc, this is not recognized as being whitespace.

In 2.2.6 or so and later that character is replaced with an underscore to prevent against its abuse.

[cafeman]

Originally posted by Steve Machol
Sorry, I can't read Arabic.

cool that u knew its arabic

so , u know our forum rtl

you can check in the strip category this user name

which is empty


okay if u could not find it , i will back with screenshot !

[cafeman]

here u can figure out

http://www.arabscafe.com/acimg/steve.jpg

[Steve Machol]

Look up userid 3023 in the user table of the database with phpMyAdmin. What does it show for the username?

[cafeman]

i found this



[Steve Machol]

It appears he register with some ASCII characters that aren't displaying on the screen.

[cafeman]

Originally posted by Steve Machol
It appears he register with some ASCII characters that aren't displaying on the screen.

ok what should i do to prevent this

[Steve Machol]

Hmmm..I really don't know. Sorry.