Title: New Spam Hack on XMLRPC.PHP
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# New Spam Hack on XMLRPC.PHP

 *  [sffandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sffandom/)
 * (@sffandom)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-spam-hack-on-xmlrpcphp/)
 * I don’t know how many versions of “xmlrpc.php” have been affected but a recent
   wave of spam attacks has come to my attention. Someone is injecting links and
   HTML code into the output of “xmlrpc.php” so that when search engines fetch the
   file, instead of the default message they receive a linking page that points 
   to other sites.
 * The destinations are the usual “viagra” sort of spam.

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