How to recover Vbulletin Admin password

Hello, I seen a few other posts on here saying that their board has been hacked, well here's another one. I have my site saved as my home page in my browser and automatically log into it all the time. Well today I opened up my browser and for some reason it wanted me to put my password in to log in to the site. Anyway, I attempted to log in 5 times and it kept giving me the wrong password page. Well then I tried to get a lost password and entered my email address and it said it wasn't recognised. I went to my config page and I am still listed there as undeletableuser.

I hv written a letter to vbulletin staff and they told me to put tools.php, but i hv try it , it appear to be blank page.


Right now I renamed my forums folder as to keep people off the site??


Please help...

 

create new member account. open your database, and copy paste the encrypted password of your newly created account to your admin account password. then use that password to access your admin account.

 

Or just find the encrypted password by putting the following code in a php file and execute it:

<?
echo md5("your new password");
?>

Code (markup):

Cheers

 

Yeah..just a little phpmyadmin work...and md5 enc too

 

VB still stores passwords using an MD5 hash ?

 

Why what's wrong with that? It's one way process!

 

aAnd its pretty secure as long as your password is, or would you rather have plain text passwords? lol

 

Thanks. How come I didnt think of this? Damn, what wrong with me.

 

A one-way process that everyone and their uncle knows about. Standard hashing algorythms are prone to rainbow table attacks.

You don't seriously believe that the only thing bot-nets do is send spam, do you ?

 

In what db table is the administrator password stored?

 

How to reset a admin password if you have lost yours is upload the tools.php and run it www.yoursite.com/includes/tools.php

 

Thanx for your fast reply, but where do I find "tools.php"?