Support » Plugin: SEO Ultimate » SEO Ultimate possibly hacked?

  • Giving the devs a heads up – your plugin is possibly compromised.

    On every WP website I have SEO Ultimate installed I get link injections and a sitemap.xml file added to the home directory.
    The links usually take the form “mywebsite.com/something-something.pdf” but on a couple of websites the links are external.
    All links are hidden via “<div>” with relative top position of “-3xxx”.

    On websites where I have deactivated or uninstalled SEO Ultimate, then reinstall WP, this never happens again. If I just clean up the sitemap.xml and reinstall WP (without disabling SEO), the links come back.

    I urge everyone using SEO Ultimate to run an outbound link checker and look for suspicious outbound links ending in .pdf then we’d know for sure something’s wrong with the plugin.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-ultimate/

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