Title: Injection attack?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Injection attack?

 *  [Gregg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorax/)
 * (@lorax)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/injection-attack/)
 * I’ve been reviewing my log files and the tables for Login Security Solution plugin
   to keep tabs on the brute force uname/pwd botnet attack going on right now. I
   saw my error_log file had grown quite a bit since Friday last and opened it up
   to see what was going on. I’m seeing entries like this:
 * error_log
    `[Sun Apr 14 04:06:42 2013] [error] [client 192.168.254.1] WordPress
   database error Incorrect key file for table './programs/wp_10_options.MYI'; try
   to repair it for query INSERT INTO`wp_10_options`(`option_name`,`option_value`,`
   autoload`) VALUES ('_transient_doing_cron', '1365926802.9474289417266845703125','
   yes') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE`option_name`= VALUES(`option_name`),`option_value`
   = VALUES(`option_value`),`autoload`= VALUES(`autoload`) made by require('wp-blog-
   header.php'), require_once('wp-load.php'), require_once('wp-config.php'), require_once('
   wp-settings.php'), do_action('init'), call_user_func_array, wp_cron, spawn_cron,
   set_transient, add_option`
 * I’ve optimized and repaired the tables on this site. What caught my eye is the
   IP addresses are from all around the world and not from within our network so
   I assume these errors are generated by people outside our network. Which makes
   me wonder if these are the result of an injection attack. Has anyone seen this
   before?

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 *  Thread Starter [Gregg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorax/)
 * (@lorax)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/injection-attack/#post-3664522)
 * Surely someone has seen something like this in their log files?

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/injection-attack/#post-3664522)
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