Title: Taxonomy hacked?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Taxonomy hacked?

 *  [Zefrem23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zefrem23/)
 * (@zefrem23)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-hacked/)
 * I’ve updated to version 3.9.1 for security reasons, but I might be too late –
   my blog now contains several spammy pages that I can’t find in the back end. 
   They are in the format
 *     ```
       http://www.myexamplesite.com/?tid=sunglasses-for-skiing-phPa.html
       ```
   
 * Which is, I think a taxonomy id? There doesn’t seem to be much online about a
   hack taking this form, so I’d like to ask whether anyone else has seen this type
   of spam hack in the wild and what a ‘tid’ even is, and hopefully might have some
   advice as to what I can do to get ris of this spam from my site?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-hacked/#post-4983459)
 * You need to start working your way through these resources:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
   [http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)
 * Anything less will probably result in the hacker walking straight back into your
   site again.
 * Additional Resources:
    [Hardening WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)
   [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/) 
   [http://www.unmaskparasites.com/](http://www.unmaskparasites.com/) [http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/wordpress-understanding-its-true-vulnerability.html](http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/wordpress-understanding-its-true-vulnerability.html)
 *  [peter_sucuri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_sucuri/)
 * (@peter_sucuri)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-hacked/#post-4983714)
 * That “tid” is just variable name the malware is using for the GET requests. Please
   follow the steps esmi mentioned and if you’ll have still problems, just let us
   know 🙂

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 * [taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/taxonomy/)

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 * Last reply from: [peter_sucuri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_sucuri/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-hacked/#post-4983714)
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