Title: Dangerous code?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Dangerous code?

 *  Resolved [gecko_guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gecko_guy/)
 * (@gecko_guy)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dangerous-code/)
 * Saw this in a review. Would like to hear your response on this one please:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-in-your-code?replies=2#post-4259838](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-in-your-code?replies=2#post-4259838)
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 *  Plugin Author [Vova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gn_themes/)
 * (@gn_themes)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dangerous-code/#post-3805085)
 * This is just an base64-encoded image in timthumb.php library.
    [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme)
 * You can try it yourself:
    [http://www.base64-image.de/](http://www.base64-image.de/)
   [http://webcodertools.com/imagetobase64converter](http://webcodertools.com/imagetobase64converter)
 *  Thread Starter [gecko_guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gecko_guy/)
 * (@gecko_guy)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dangerous-code/#post-3805086)
 * Thanks, I didn’t think it was malware as this would need an eval() decoding function
   on the same line, but it is always nice to have confirmation from the author.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dangerous-code/#post-3805086)
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