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Posted by iofthestorm 
Random text on search pages
January 13, 2009 10:35PM
Hi, I just noticed that on search pages there's a random text "kaka" right before the first opening html tag. Where did that come from? I hope it's not the mark of a hacker.

For example, [forum.wiibrew.org]
Re: Random text on search pages
January 13, 2009 10:41PM
I looked at your link and I'm not seeing random text anywhere. Pictures please?
Re: Random text on search pages
January 13, 2009 10:56PM
Just look in the top left hand corner
Re: Random text on search pages
January 13, 2009 10:58PM
yeah, i saw it too... I thought it was just the search query, but it shows up on any search
Re: Random text on search pages
January 13, 2009 11:00PM
A quick view of the pages source reveals:

kaka<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
My best guess is that its an error in the phorum software when it generates a search page. If we had a hacker "kaka" would be in more places than the search pages. Good eyes gentlemen.
Re: Random text on search pages
January 14, 2009 09:57PM
Yeah, that's what I just said, basically. I checked the official Phorum support forum and it didn't have the "kaka" on search pages so I don't know what's going on. It might just be a white hat hacker, who just wants to point something out. Or it might just be someone was messing with the templates and accidentally saved.
Re: Random text on search pages
January 14, 2009 11:19PM
Manchester City have put in a £100m bid for Kaka.
bbc.co.uk

Spooky!
Re: Random text on search pages
January 15, 2009 12:15AM
Quote
iofthestorm
Or it might just be someone was messing with the templates and accidentally saved.
Predicting this.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2009 12:15AM by comex.
Re: Random text on search pages
January 16, 2009 05:35PM
Close, someone was messing with the search page. It's fixed now. :)
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