[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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