[wp-hackers] Help with intrusion issues in forums

Michael E. Hancock justmichaelh at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 16:30:12 GMT 2008


From: "Peter Westwood" <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>
> Michael E. Hancock wrote:
>> Anyone care to look at some 'intrusion' issues that have come up in 
>> the Forums:
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/220496
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/220447
>>
> Secondly, The symptoms of the issue here suggest a server level hack has 
> taken place and the hacker has run a script to change the content of 
> lots of files on a shared server.
> 
> It doesn't look to me like a WordPress security issue

Reports filtering in that SOME sites on these hosts have been affected:
dreamhost, bluehost, binero.se, eSolutions Interactive, Site5

MichaelH




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