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December 5, 2022 · View on GitHub

Help Secure Planet Source Code: The PSC Hacking Challenge

Description

Want to help keep your submissions on Planet Source Code as safe as possible from hackers as well as ensure that the voting system can't be manipulated? I am posting this entry up as a 'guinnea pig'. If you can modify it, (while following the rules below), you'll get a free copy of the Planet Source Code Cd for your troubles and the site will be enhanced against future attacks! See below for full details..

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ByIan Ippolito (vWorker)
LevelBeginner
User Rating4.6 (83 globes from 18 users)
CompatibilityVB 3.0, VB 4.0 (16-bit), VB 4.0 (32-bit), VB 5.0, VB 6.0, VB Script, ASP (Active Server Pages) , VBA MS Access, VBA MS Excel
CategoryMiscellaneous
WorldVisual Basic
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Rules of the 'PSC Hacking Challenge':

You can win in one of two ways:

  1. If you can modify this submission in any way other than through normal functions given to all site users (i.e. change the # of votes without voting, change the submission title, contents, etc.) then you will win a copy of the Planet Source Code CD.
     
  2. If you can hack the login system and login as a user other than yourself.  (Note that simply creating multiple logins with multiple email addresses doesn't count--anyone can do that!)  To win the Cd, your exploit has to allow you to login as someone else whose account was created with an email address that you don't have access to.

To win the CD you must:

1) Report privately to me how you got around security.  Send your email to Webmasternospam@planet-source-code.com (note:remove the 'nospam' from the name...that is there just to fool email name harvesters)..

2) You can brag about it all you want...but please NOT before I've had time to patch the site and post up the new code!

3) You must not hack anything other than this submission. Submissions and feedback/comments are moderated, so you can't hack the site that way anyway. Please don't increase the moderators' work unnecessarily by posting "fake" submissions or feedback/comments.

4) One CD will be awarded to the first discoverer of each security hole.

Thanks for helping to make Planet Source Code as secure as it can be!