[wp-hackers] New (to me) Cracker Attempt

Matt Mullenweg m at mullenweg.com
Mon Aug 9 19:20:48 UTC 2004


Randy Peterman wrote:
> I got a new query term from Google:
> inurl: "/install.php" 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A+%22%2Finstall.php%22>
> Which concerns me, not because they can toy with my WP install, but 
> because it means that new people just thinking, "Let me try WordPress 
> out." may upload the files and then say, "I'll do that later."  Later 
> could be too late as someone could have defaced their page.  I know this 
> isn't a real threat to the 5 minute install, but it is in the case of 
> the n00b.  Any thoughts?

That's probably not targeted specifically at WordPress, probably just a 
generic troll for open installs.

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