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Old 2008-04-17, 08:09 AM   #1
Ms Naughty
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Spam injection hack: Upgrade and tighten WP now!

Hi guys
Well, ronnie warned me here: http://greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=46438
and I did listen, but I was just putting it off for a few days. Too late.

I've just spend a couple of hours working out wtf happened to my blog and it turns out I was hit by something called a "spam injection hack."

Info here:
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/wor...spam-injection

Essentially, if you find all your plugins suddenly disabled and you're suddenly getting a bunch of comment emails - do something quick!

Here's the WP boards info about how to fix it:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154571?replies=19

Also this one:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/163752?replies=11

I upgraded to 2.5 but it doesn't necessarily fix it and you may need to start deleting injected files from your db.

So I'll link to these pages while I'm here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-...-installation/
http://blogsecurity.net/

Now I feel so naked and vulnerable... |shocking|
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