[wp-forums] Akismet Hacking Thread

[Kathryn Presner]

Perfect, thanks.

BTW - great having you at WordCamp Montreal this weekend. I was too
shy to introduce myself. ;-)

kp

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
> 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