Article Dashboard. Sometimes Free Is Not Good

Have you ever wanted to start your own Article Publishing site, but one that will allow even the dumbest script kiddie hacker break into your admin and deface your pages with porn and ringtone links?

Has the thought of having an article directory that allows these same hackers to upload pirated software and scripts to use your hosting accounts as a download dump and install phishing sites to steal others passwords been your lifelong dream?

Then, the Article Dashboard script is for you! Seriously folks, this script is bad news for you, but a godsend to hackers around the world. And it's so dangerous, I'm not even going to put a link to their site in this article.

Article Dashboard is one of those dinosaur article publishing scripts that the owners have just never really cared to fix or upgrade in any meaningful way. The front end pages are fairly clean and appealing, and the admin section has the basic article admin functions, like Approved/Decline articles, Edit Author Accounts, but the script is completely encoded with ioncube, except for a few template pages.

The encoding makes redesigning difficult, and fixing the many bugs in the script is impossible except by the owners of the script which have shown no interest in fixing anything or the protection of the AD script users.

Article Dashboard has several well known exploits in it. One being that anyone can upload very bad things to the site through the article page's URL. In other words, hackers can upload anything to your hosting account by adding the path to the bad scripts in the Article Dashboard's article pages http path.

Another exploit is that anyone can login to any Article Dashboard user's admin section with a mysql injection attack. Takes about 1 minute to break in and destroy your Article Dashboard site and any others you may have on that hosting account.

I hate to keep harping on the faults of Article Dashboard, but this script is so bad, and so dangerous for anyone to use, that I can't really review the script, but only warn you away from it. If you have any doubts about what I'm saying, do a search on article dashboard to view all the hacked sites and security warnings, and hopefully avoid all the bad things that will happen if you decide to use this script!

Also, keep in mind there is no support as the support forum has been abandoned and removed. You will be completely on your own.