[theme-reviewers] help with review

[Chip Bennett]

Phone-home script? Yeah, looking at it, that's bad. I'm immediately
suspending all Themes from this developer. Feel free to close/not-approved
all open tickets.


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:

> If I may add - all themes by this reporter (previously suspended for
> license compatibility) seem to have the same contact form in them.
>
> A quick SVN comparison to the ticket Kavita reviewed shows the same
> pattern as they all contain almost the same file structure. here are the
> ticket numbers in question...
>
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12795
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12796
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12797
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12798
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12800
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12801
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12802
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12805
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12813
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12803 - has the iframe in
> functions.php
>
> File in question is
> http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/theme-name/cfg/admin/settings/contact.php- not tested if they are indeed iframes, just going by the pattern at the
> moment.
>
> I could be wrong on this but themes also seem to have a phone home script
> pointing to http://wpstats.mythem.es/?theme= with the extraction of user
> first_name' user last_name, user_login and user_email - this is triggered
> by activation and deactivation of the theme.
>
> For ticket #12795 the suspected phone home script is located in
> theme-name/fw/mytheme.class.php - could be same for the rest of themes but
> I think I notice one located in the functions.php.
>
> Should we go through these and close them on per ticket basis sighting the
> review @ #12793 <http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12793> or can an
> Admin do an SVN comaprison and close all tickets sighting the same review?
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:13:11 -0400
> From: chip at chipbennett.net
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] help with review
>
>
> No. Themes should not link to any external resource. They can provide a
> link to the external content, or include the content internally.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Kavita Kumawat <erkavecb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was reviewing this theme and the developer has put the iframe in theme
> options, linking to his website to be contacted.. is this allowed??
>
> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12793
>
> thanks in advance
> kavita
>
>
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