[wp-forums] Akismet Hacking Thread

[Kevin Gagel (gagel)]

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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:18 AM

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
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[Kevin Gagel] That statement makes the whole plugin infrastructure look like a high risk platform security issue. Why would I want to keep something that is so easily exploited and apparently deliberately insecure?