[theme-reviewers] WPORG: Support: Claim of a number of backdoored themes in Repo

Amy Hendrix sabreuse at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 14:35:00 UTC 2012


Yeah, I suspect that "helpers.php" is an exploit that someone is using
somewhere -- exactly because it's such a generic-looking filename --
but it's also used as a name for a perfectly innocent helper function
library by other themes.


On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> I replied, and "ottolook" tagged the topic. (If code is to be removed from
> SVN, Otto is the one to do it.)
>
> The OP definitely found some malicious code, but some of the referenced
> Themes don't have malicious code, as far as I can tell.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:12 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>
> wrote:
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>> <http://wordpress.org/support/topic/backdoored-templates-on-themessvnwordpressorg>
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>> Mel
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