[TriLUG] OT: Wordpress Hack

[Allen Freeman]

Of course. There are plenty of reasons to hate <your language of choice>. All programming languages suck, each in it's own way.

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Kevin Kreamer <kevin at kreamer.org> wrote:

From: Kevin Kreamer <kevin at kreamer.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Wordpress Hack
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 12:27 AM

There are plenty of reasons to hate PHP, this particular insecure code
notwithstanding.

Kevin

On Thursday, June 4, 2009, Allen Freeman <knieveltech at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Neat trick, blaming insecure code on the language.
>
> --- On Thu, 6/4/09, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
>
> From: Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Wordpress Hack
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 11:46 PM
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Mark Turner wrote:
>
>> A number of my blogs were recently compromised. Same story: WP 2.7.1. I think it was an XMLRPC attack:
>> http://www.markturner.net/2009/05/27/mt-net-recovers-from-another-hack/
>
> Man, I hate PHP.
>
> (sigh)
>
> This was actually embedded in an old post, not in a comment, which I found weird.
>
> As for users, when I get a registration that I don't recognize or one that doesn't post anything pretty much immediately, it gets deleted.
>
> Thanks - I'll write Wordpress.
>
> -T
>
> P.S. If you do a search on some of the strings in that hack on Google, you'll see *a lot* of sites with it.
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