[wp-forums] Akismet Hacking Thread

[Andrew Nacin]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Kathryn Presner <zoonini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just spotted a thread about possible hacking of sites through Akismet.
> Should any of this be removed or edited?
>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-hacked-through-akismet?replies=9


As indicated in the thread, injecting backdoors into plugin directories is
pretty common. Akismet is on every install, so it's easy to target and blend
something in to the woodwork. Definitely not a code security issue.

Nacin