[wp-forums] plugin with spam links

Mika A Epstein ipstenu at ipstenu.org
Sun Dec 1 21:11:47 UTC 2013


FYI, The plugin was patched.

I've edited the post so the link isn't clickable anymore (just wrapped 
it in code tags).

Glenn Messersmith wrote:
>
> The initial post in this thread contains a live link to the spam target
> site. I don't think we should be promoting the same links that the 
> spammers
> are promoting. I know it has a rel="nofollow" attribute in the link so at
> least its presence is not helping ranking with the major search engines,
> but I believe a live link still benefits spammers to some extent.
> ---------------------------------------
> alchymyth wrote:
>
> this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/pagenavi-automatic-page-numbers/
> contains
> spam links.
> reported in the forum at
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/hack-or-exploit?replies=4#post-4940612
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