Awstats Question About 404 Pages Not Found Data

[chuckmalani]

Hi all-

 

I was checking out the awstats on one of my sites, and i checked out the 404 pages not found data that was listed. Here's what i found...

 

URL (9) Error Hits Referers

/cgi-bin/formmail.pl 1 http://www.[myurl].com/

/cgi-bin/formmail.cgi 1 http://www.[myurl].com/

/cgi-bin/FormMail.cgi 1 http://www.[myurl].com/

/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl 1 http://www.[myurl].com/

 

i dont use formmail on my site, primarily because i have heard things about it not being secure. am i seeing that someone tried to exploit formmail's security hole(s) by guessing that it was on my website?

 

thanks for any feedback!

chuck

[LisaJill]

Pretty much, yes. I've gotten quite a few of those as well. It's just people searching for the form to exploit it; nothing to worry about since you don't have that script.