[theme-reviewers] malicious code found in a theme in the codex

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Thu Feb 10 16:49:14 UTC 2011


I'm actually fine with leaving it in SVN, for reference/posterity.

But, is there some way that we could flag it, so that anyone attempting to
access it in SVN is warned that the Theme contains malicious code?

Chip

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Otto -
> >
> > Should we consider having this theme (and similar ones) removed from the
> SVN
> > repo? Just as a safety precaution if nothing else ... unless there is a
> way
> > to "hide" it from the public view.
>
> I don't currently have direct access to the SVN (I can get it, if
> needed), so I can't actually go and remove things from it.
>
> But honestly, do you think it's really worth the trouble? It's in the
> SVN, but so are a lot of things. The SVN is mainly just storage. If
> it's not in the themes directory, then it's not really visible or
> installable from WP itself. You have to go to a fair amount of trouble
> to pull code from the SVN and install it.
>
> -Otto
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