Title: Backdoor
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Backdoor

 *  Resolved [woofdriver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woofdriver/)
 * (@woofdriver)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdoor-1/)
 * Our site was hacked, and our email server was passing third party spam. Our ISP
   identified it as a pass through from WordPress coming from a form/forum plugin.
 * We installed Anti-Malware from GOTMLS.NET. It found code identified as a backdoor
   threat installed in your plugin. We currently have version 1.5.5 of your plugin.
   Are you aware of this issue? Is there a newer version of our plugin that addresses
   it?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/showdown/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/showdown/)

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 *  Plugin Author [owencutajar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/owencutajar/)
 * (@owencutajar)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdoor-1/#post-7143790)
 * Hi Woofdriver,
 * Just ran the scan against our dev site and not seeing any issue with our plugin.
   Can you send us a screenshot of what you are seeing?
 * I’m not too sure that the Anti-Malware plugin from GOTMLS.NET is reliable, as
   it is pointing at a number of WordPress files and claiming that they are ‘Potentional
   Threats’. I would expect that it would know if WordPress include files are dangerous
   or not. If I can recommend a different security plugin, I make extensive use 
   of Wordfence which I believe is the best security plugin available at the moment(
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)).
   Can I recommend you use this to prevent your site being hacked.
 * Regards
 * Owen

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdoor-1/#post-7143790)
 * Status: resolved