[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 In both cases, they were running outdated versions of 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.?
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> wp-hackers mailing list
>>> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> wp-hackers mailing list
>> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers


More information about the wp-hackers mailing list