URL Hijacked

Shane Barnes
(@slb923)

12 years, 8 months ago

Hi all. Well it would figure something like this would happen sooner or later. I build all of my client sites on WordPress and a client of mine just contacted me saying each time she tries to visit her website she’s redirected to YouTube.

Well, I input her URL on my own browser and sure enough there’s a redirect. Obviously her URL has been hijacked and I need to figure out how to get it back and what efforts might can be taken to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Any and all help to that end is much appreciated. 🙂

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Sugar Apple
(@blacklizt)

12 years, 8 months ago

could you share your clients link?
due its so many possibilities like .htaccess redirect

Thread Starter Shane Barnes
(@slb923)

12 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for the response, blacklizt. Her URL is as follows:

http://www.marisachurchill.com

Hopefully that’ll help. Don’t know how in the world to get her site back up at the moment, so if you have any suggestions after taking a look I’d certainly appreciate it. 🙂

Mark Ratledge
(@songdogtech)

12 years, 8 months ago

See FAQ: My site was hacked « WordPress Codex and How to completely clean your hacked wordpress installation and How to find a backdoor in a hacked WordPress and Hardening WordPress « WordPress Codex and tell your host. Change all passswords. Scan your own PC. Some plugins might be useful: Search for “security” « WordPress Plugins

There is a known vulnerability in timthumb; see http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/08/timthumb-php-security-vulnerability-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.html

Thread Starter Shane Barnes
(@slb923)

12 years, 8 months ago

Wow this is great, songdogtech! Thanks a million! I’ll let you know how it goes! 🙂

zhongfeifei1
(@zhongfeifei1)

12 years, 8 months ago

a big problem !
i’m new for wordpress
nothing i can do for you
so i’m waiting for the solutions
when you solve this problem,please post it and tell us the details thanks!

Thread Starter Shane Barnes
(@slb923)

12 years, 8 months ago

What exactly is happening in your case, zhongfeifei1?

Sugar Apple
(@blacklizt)

12 years, 8 months ago

i`ve take a look at your site and found, yeah its redirected to youtube after few seconds.
and there`s no strange code in you site. you need to check your wordpress installation but not limited to theme and plugins.

MickeyRoush
(@mickeyroush)

12 years, 8 months ago

What happens when you deactivate the automatic-youtube-video-posts plugin? If you can’t access it via the admin page, rename the automatic-youtube-video-posts plugin folder via FTP so it will be deactivated.

Thread Starter Shane Barnes
(@slb923)

12 years, 8 months ago

Good question MickeyRoush. Just tried that very thing and I get the following message:

Your attempt to deactivate this plugin: “automatic-youtube-video-posts/tern_wp_youtube.php” has failed.

My client reported earlier today that her new YouTube videos weren’t posting to the site, so obviously there’s something going on here. Any ideas?

Thread Starter Shane Barnes
(@slb923)

12 years, 8 months ago

Quick update on the situation: having tried several times and finally disabled the automatic-youtube-posts plugin as MickeyRoush suggested, the URL is no longer being redirected to YouTube. Currently looking into why this was happening and will report back with an answer when and if I find out. 😉