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		Macha on March 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Phpfog "Down for maintenance" The exploit was not anything to do with PHP. A section of their site was allowing to users to execute commands under a user which they should not have been allowed to. This could have happened under any programming language.

jonursenbach on March 20, 2011 [–]

Especially given that their codebase is apparently Ruby and not PHP.

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