WordPress DIY – How To Check For Spam Links After Being Attacked by Hackers!

About a month ago, some of my blogs got hacked BAD, they were FILLED with porn spam links.  Of course, it took me awhile to realize that it was actually a WordPress security hole.  I complained to WordPress people via Twitter but they told me WordPress was secure. Anyway, today I heard that WordPress announced that WordPress has security holes, meaning if you don’t use the latest versions, you are susceptible to worms that will take over your admin privileges and possibly do nasty things like put spam links all over your older blog posts. I actually did a complete analysis on how hackers were doing it and indeed it’s all “automated” and they try to fill your older blog posts with spam links so they will go unnoticed if unless you check your last year’s blog posts. You will need this simple code to see if they have injected any hidden spam links in your blog posts, just in case your blog got hacked. Hackers will use “display:none” to “hide” their links from the browser so here’s the code you can download and save as “check.php”. Change the DB name and password to yours.  Then run it by opening … Continue reading WordPress DIY – How To Check For Spam Links After Being Attacked by Hackers!