[wp-hackers] wpau-backup being exploited?

[Charles E. Frees-Melvin]

wpau-backup is the backup directory of people with the WordPress
Automatic Update plugin.

2008/5/25 Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com>:
> 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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Charles E. Frees-Melvin
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