[wp-hackers] Porn links in google cache
Philip Walton
philip at philipwalton.com
Thu Jul 14 16:04:10 UTC 2011
I can remember two times where clients of mine discovered similar things
with their sites. In both cases, they were running outdated versions of
WordPress.
Just a friendly reminder to always stay current and make sure to tell
your clients to do so too.
On 7/14/11 8:45 AM, Justin W Hall wrote:
> Thanks Chip-
>
> Can you elaborate a little? Is this a result of poor HOST security or poor WP security?
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Chip Bennett<chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Google for the WordPress Pharma hack that went around last year or so. This
>> sounds exactly like that.
>>
>> Chip
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Justin W Hall<justin at justinwhall.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey folks-
>>>
>>> It's been brought to my attention that when a site a recently worked in is
>>> viewed via google cache, there is a whole list of mostly porn related links
>>> that have been added to the bottom of the pages that obviously do not exist
>>> on the page. My questions:
>>>
>>> 1) how does this happen? Host related malware?
>>>
>>> 2) what us the best way to go about fixing this.?
>>>
>>>
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