[wp-forums] plugin with spam links

Mika A Epstein ipstenu at ipstenu.org
Mon Dec 2 04:28:28 UTC 2013


Nope.

Daniel wrote:
>
> Can you edit posts on the mailing list?
>
> On 12/2/13, Mika A Epstein<ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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