This site may be compromised

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I have a site I kind of abandoned a little over a year ago, recently it popped up in a google search I did with the warning "this site may be compromised" So I logged into webmaster tools and there were no warnings... I thought that was odd.

In going through webmaster tools I get to the keyword density report. The most common keywords are not anything remotely related to the site. Cialis, Viagra, etc are the most common keywords.

But, I don't see them anywhere on the site. Not on posts, or pages, comments are facebook comments. The site has been compromised somehow would anyone care to share how they did it?
 
Did you use any "cracked" themes or plugins? That is a common reason - they may be displaying spam only when you are not logged into WordPress (or it detects that the visitor is a new IP address).
 
none, the site is very straight up. I put it together long before I discovered BHW. I was just going through it again, web master tools lists the urls where those keywords are found and there is nothing there.
 
none, the site is very straight up. I put it together long before I discovered BHW. I was just going through it again, web master tools lists the urls where those keywords are found and there is nothing there.

You need to search inside your code . Check View Source with your browser and search fot this keyword on this pages and you will find them
 
Does this mean its coming from facebook comments? (taking out the pharma domain, it may very well be a BHW members site) *edit, a lot more showed up when I pasted than I saw in the code console... bunches of domains.

Any thoughts on how to remove this? Oh, and prevent it on my other sites


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wordpress, still version 3.5 Thesis Theme

plug-ins are:
404 redirected
Contact Form 7
Contact Form DB
Feedburner Email Widget
Google Analytics
Google Sitemap plug-in
Jetpack
Ultimate Tinymce
WP youtube channel gallery
 
you have been hacked or have malware on your site.
 
I think your site is hacked, maybe you used a cracked plug in...
 
to my knowledge nothing on the site is a cracked plug-in, that said. I knew nothing about wordpress when it was set up and had it done by someone I found on odesk.

When I was regularly monitoring this site none of this showed up which had me believing that that the site was hacked at some point and this added to the code. I will go look at the history of my plug-ins.
 
That looks like a PHP injection using WP exploits but I may be mistaken, I'm not a good programmer. Try rolling back to an older clean version of your site if you have one on backup.

And try to install some protection plugins for safety.
 
ok, so I did not have an older version of the site backed up (all my sites are now) I installed the word fence plug-in and was able to find the plug-ins that had been changed. It was share-a-holic and the contact form plug-in. uninstalled, deleted those files and re-installed clean plug-ins.

Now when I view my source code I can not find the code I pasted above. anywhere, so I had google recrawl the site, according to webmaster tools the most common word in my site is still levitra.... When I look at the preview of my site in the godaddy control panel the header on the home page still shows these keywords and outbound links but I can not find them, I spent hours going through all of my html and php files, not just the header files.

Any ideas on how to remove this? Or can anyone recommend a trustworthy source to remove? I don't use the site for much anymore but it's a PR3 domain that is well aged and I could easily make some money from guests posts on the site its a competitive niche.
 
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