[wp-hackers] wpau-backup being exploited?

[Jeremy Visser]

Been getting a lot of spam in Akismet lately that contain URLs like the
following:

http://conexions.org/wordpress/wpau-backup/wordpress/wp-content/themes/classic/css/fence/fencing-tools.html

It seems spammers are storing link farm files in these wpau-backup
directories.

A Google for wpau-backup reveals that a lot of these directories have
been indexed:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wpau-backup

Some of the results returned in that search query were actually linked
to in some of the spam I got.

What is wpau-backup used for? Does it have any known exploits?

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Jeremy Visser                                 http://jeremy.visser.name/

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