[wp-hackers] Free themes have backlinks and backdoors inserted in code?

[Mayur somani]

I already googled for it and I think I know almost every trick to do
this. Still I wanted to ensure that I'm not missing anything.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Dhruva Sagar <dhruva.sagar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, mrmist <listswphackers at mist.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> In message <a51040f00901260050j3b4f24fl27f7d6cd0667859a at mail.gmail.com>,
>> Mayur somani <somani.mayur at gmail.com> writes
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> While researching on some of the, so called, black hat SEO strategies,
>>> I found many tricks to insert backlinks and backdoors into free
>>> wordpress themes and then distributing them.
>>>
>>> Now this is unacceptible. So, please list any of the ways you know to
>>> insert backlinks and backdoors into themes files. I am planning to
>>> write a plugin that will scan all the theme files to report any
>>> malicious code there.
>>>
>>>
>> I don't really fancy listing all the ways I know to obfuscate links into
>> themes, as even though I find the practice shady listing them all would
>> provide an easy-listing resource for people wanting to do just that.
>>
>> Of course if you are serious about writing a plugin to defend against such
>> things, I'm sure if you google a bit you will find all sorts of references
>> to hidden links and how they get there.
>
>
> I strongly agree to the same.
>
>
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