PHPQA game play count exploitation fix
Posted on : 09-07-2009 | By : Ron | In : PHPQA
Few months ago I had a strange problem in my arcade gaming website Arcadevine. One day I was browsing my High Score Games website and accidentally found that the game play count of one game was suddenly increased by thousands in a matter of few seconds. I was very surprised because there was no traffic surge at that particular game page. I checked my server logs and found that my website received very little traffic at that time. I could not explain the problem and thought that probably the script has a bug. Arcadevine was build using PHP-Quick-Arcade script and I asked Jcink who was the creator of the script. He also has no clue of the problem. Anyway, I forgot about the incident until I saw the reoccurrence of the same problem again in a different game. I was confirmed that there must be some problem with the script. I checked all…
