[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Generating bogus locations of vulnerable, non-existent scripts?
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My sitemaps have recently started generating locations for areas that don’t even exist on my site, pointing to scripts for phpMyAdmin, zingiri-web-shop, and others.
Here is an example of some of the locations generated in the xml.gz files:
<!-- <gen:info> <gen:name>Google Sitemap Generator</gen:name> <gen:version>1.0.0.0</gen:version> <gen:date>2011-12-17T17:07:13Z</gen:date> </gen:info> --> <url> <loc>http://example.com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0/scripts/setup.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-17T16:29:31Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/mysql-admin/scripts/setup.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-17T16:25:12Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/webadmin/index.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-17T16:36:02Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/sqlmanager/scripts/setup.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-17T16:40:56Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com//mysql/setup/index.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-11-14T14:09:48Z</lastmod> <changefreq>hourly</changefreq> <priority>0.1</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/zingiri-web-shop/load.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-17T16:38:59Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/admin/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-17T16:24:39Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com//phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-rc1/scripts/setup.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-09T18:54:10Z</lastmod> <changefreq>hourly</changefreq> <priority>0.1</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com//admin/setup/index.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-11-14T14:09:44Z</lastmod> <changefreq>hourly</changefreq> <priority>0.1</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/mysql-admin/setup/index.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-11-22T21:21:00Z</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/pma/index.php</loc> <lastmod>2011-12-07T18:30:10Z</lastmod> <changefreq>yearly</changefreq> <priority>0.8</priority> <mobile:mobile/></url>Does anyone know why these may be getting generated? It almost appears as some kind of brute force to see if vulnerable scripts exist in these locations, as after these files were generated, the 404 logs in my server went ballistic!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
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