WordPress worm?

  • jwcampbe

    (@jwcampbe)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I don’t really know what the source or type of the problem I’m discussing is. But I’ve found that my own – and several WordPress sites have text hidden in the code – gibberish and links.

    (That’s how I discovered this – when I noticed a random site was linking to me – and checked out to see what it was.)

    You can see what I’m looking at if you go to:
    http://redsminorleagues.com/
    http://2parse.com/

    Look after the <body> tag, and you find a long list of words and links…

    If you go here, you find a random page filled with gibberish:
    http://2parse.com/?hfrw=1

    Not sure the purpose of this – or what’s going on – but I want to figure out how to get rid of it.

    Any ideas?

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  • whooami

    (@whooami)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Joe,

    when did you upgrade your blog at 2parse to 2.7.1? and what version were you running at the time you upgraded?

    important details.

    Thread Starter jwcampbe

    (@jwcampbe)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    I generally upgrade within 2 or 3 days of the release, as soon as they notify you within the WordPress admin – I wasn’t really keeping track of dates.

    By which I mean – I had whatever version was immediately previous – 2.7.0 I would guess – and I updated shortly after 2.7.1 was released.

    Thread Starter jwcampbe

    (@jwcampbe)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Looking at this thing – it seems like some sort of scheme to increase a site’s links.

    The random page that I see was created has:

    <meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow”>

    Looking through the pages linked to from mine, most of them also have this code – but some don’t.

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    gotcha..

    javascript injections are pretty commonplace, unfortunately, and not just a wordpress issue.

    is redsminorleagues.com your site as well?

    Thread Starter jwcampbe

    (@jwcampbe)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    No – one of the pages on that site was linking to mine – which is how I found this whole issue.

    I notified the owner – but I don’t think really understood what I was talking about.

    How do you eliminate a javascript injection?

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    How do you eliminate a javascript injection?

    thats a tough question. heres my general advice,

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/271485?replies=5

    Thread Starter jwcampbe

    (@jwcampbe)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you very much.

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