Title: Malicious theme downloaded from WordPress.org
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Malicious theme downloaded from WordPress.org

 *  [navimeister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/navimeister/)
 * (@navimeister)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-theme-downloaded-from-wordpressorg/)
 * I have downloaded a theme from here: [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sunset-theme](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sunset-theme)
 * It worked great, but after a while I noticed that my google images traffic was
   not converting at all. I did a couple test queries on Google and I was redirected
   to the a blogger blog when came from Google image search. Next I disabled all
   plugins, cleared cache, same behaviour.
 * Then I changed the theme, and the behaviour disappeared. I was not able to pinpoint
   the code causing this and not sure if the author did it or it is some kind of
   vulnerability that someone took advantage of. Still, worth a note..

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 *  [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/)
 * (@adeptris)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malicious-theme-downloaded-from-wordpressorg/#post-2801367)
 * Themes are inspected and tested before they are accepted into the themes repository,
   so it is most likely a vulnerability issue with a third party script.
 * David

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