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Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack
Topic: Miscellaneous 4:20 pm EDT, Sep  5, 2009

Writes Lorelle on her WordPress-centric blog:

There are two clues that your WordPress site has been attacked:

First, there are strange additions to permalinks, such as example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are “eval” and “base64_decode.”

TechCrunch is not great about reporting security vulns, certainly not to the level of detail you;d want if you hack in the scene. What *is* interesting is using the Http Referer (sic) header to carry the actual payload.

Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack



 
 
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