Has anyone had there wordpress hacked?

webwhizz · May 26, 2011

Today i found 3 of my blogs have been hacked when i goto log in, it takes me to this site http://lypills.com/

i dont know how they done it i dont appear to have any virusus, and been changing my passwords every week, i wonder if its something todo with having the comments on auto aprrove? its so annoying think my only option it to reinstall them

anyone else had this?

SahL · May 26, 2011

which theme and plugins did use, check them.

webwhizz · May 26, 2011

sahlcoolio said:
which theme and plugins did use, check them.

Hi
i had ctr theme and just one plugin called unique article wizard, never got round to adding anymore, i cant get to the admin it just redirects to that site, i can get into cpanel but cant see where it is, i thought it might be wpadmin page, but seems fine ......

Decent WebArt · May 26, 2011

I got the same trouble with my wordpress blogs.There is no any specific solution but you should update your site and must install captcha filled plugin in login of your site.

fnd80 · May 26, 2011

how come people don't know the difference between "there" "their" and "they're" anymore?

Katarina · May 26, 2011

fnd80 said:
how come people don't know the difference between "there" "their" and "they're" anymore?

Its because of the rapture. English-proficient people have already ascended with Jesus.

Kidding aside, are you using free themes? Because I dont know if this is accurate but I heard from someone that you can get easily hacked by using a theme (usually free and can easily be found on the net) that is really designed with a back door of some sort. Check the link between your blogs? Using the same theme? Plugin? Sql injection maybe?

accelerator_dd · May 26, 2011

Were you updating Wordpress regularly? If yes, also might be plugins.

Other then that, if it's dedicated hosting maybe some of your services is outdated. If shared, check if any other hosting package on your server is having problems (ask support).

Other then that, might be themes, but that is rarely the case in my experience.

webwhizz · May 27, 2011

i Reinstalled them, they all good now, i took your advice and installed a captcha plugin,
and im not using any FREE themes just ctr theme that bought.

im sure it was to do with the uniquearticlewizard plugin i was using.

it was all up updated, i change passwords on regular basis i use avast which says i have no viruses, so its a bit of a mystery.

Thanks for your help

Gold Mike · May 27, 2011

There's some free security plugins available that you could install too. I had a WP site get hacked a few months ago, I installed one called Bulletproof Security and haven't had any more issues.

seoguy81 · May 27, 2011

You might already know about this, but first associate the username 'admin' with a secondary email address of your choice and assign admin to subscriber role. User a different username to be the blog administrator.

Also use different passwords for your WP login and phpmysql db's to be safe.

I had my blog hacked mid last year and if not for the site back ups I would have been really screwed. Keep all your plugins up to date and stay away from anything that has base64 encoding.

clau82 · May 27, 2011

This has nothing to do with UAW plugin. I use it on many blogs and never had issues with it. Your looks more like a htaccess hack or other type that used some unplugged security hole. Could also be a hosting account hack and having nothing to so with WP. I was hacked 2 times and each time was a hosting issue - either security or improper settings. that host never admitted to anything but the hackers bragged about it on some forum...

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