[wp-hackers] Hacked blogs

Peter Westwood peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk
Thu Mar 26 22:19:24 GMT 2009


On 26 Mar 2009, at 16:22, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> I too fixed a site that had this iframe problem, but it was a v2.6  
> site.  I know this was asked implicitly but let me ask again  
> explicitly; is there any chance that these hacked sites shared any  
> of the same plugins?  As Mark Jaquith tweeted about recently, plugin  
> as a group are generally not written with good security practices in  
> mind; maybe there's a huge security hole in a shared plugin?

Also as an aside.

Do this sites share anything else in common?

Are they all on shared servers?
What other webapps are installed?

westi
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