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In my previous entry (now deleted) I posted my Xbox Gamercard. Today, I noticed that it wasn’t showing up. I checked the source and found this spam lurking:
<style> .bll { position:absolute; left:-1700px; } </style>
<p class="bll"> <a href="http://forum.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=buylevitraon">buy levitra online</a></p>
WTF?? I didn’t put it there… Can spam edit WP entries now? Scary 
Bubs posted this entry 9 months, 2 weeks ago on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 4:12 pm.
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rin (Quote)
that is scary!! I hope spam can’t edit WP entries x.x those spammers are getting more and more tenacious!
Mon Oct 8th, 2007 5:02 pm
Ben (Quote)
I noticed that too! I was just like.. err… nice?
Mon Oct 8th, 2007 5:26 pm
Amber (Quote)
Oh dear, I really hope not. It’s bad enough having to deal with those pesky spam comments!
Sat Nov 17th, 2007 3:20 pm
Jordan (Quote)
I would definitely Google around to see if other people have had this occur. It definitely does seem really weird that it would have been included.
Was it included in your post itself? Check out WP’s support for sure.
Sat Nov 17th, 2007 6:19 pm
Jordan (Quote)
*headdesk* I didn’t even pay attention to the date of this post either. Way to have your site down for too long D:
Sat Nov 17th, 2007 6:21 pm
Heidi (Quote)
That is just really scary and weird. I hope you figured it all out.
Btw I tagged you
Sun Nov 18th, 2007 4:07 am
Louise (Quote)
Did you ever find out the problem?
I know this might sound “dumb” but could it have to do with writable files/folders?
Sun Nov 18th, 2007 7:15 am
Hev (Quote)
That is scary, Bubs. I didn’t think spam could do that with WP entries. Hmm…makes me wonder now. I know that spam can make comments, but edit entries. That is something new to me. Hope you get it figured out.
BTW, you have been tagged, now don’t hate me, Bubs. Heidi & Zala made me. Though I think you have already been tagged once.
http://blog.tigerwhispers.com/?p=91
Sun Nov 18th, 2007 4:04 pm
Rikkye (Quote)
I also got that exact bot on my header.php. Now, I’m basically making all theme templates unwritable except when I need to change a few things around. Annoying, isn’t it?
Mon Nov 19th, 2007 3:09 am
Brigitte (Quote)
Your site is back, yayayayay!
Mon Nov 19th, 2007 7:38 am
Nanda (Quote)
First of all, welcome back!
That’s indeed scary. Did they manage to hack into your Wordpress/FTP account or something? Why would they edit something like that?? I mean I don’t think they can edit files through a web browser or something, but if they hacked into your account why would they only change that bit of code? Scary stuff.
Tue Nov 20th, 2007 5:31 am
TuscaloosaBum (Quote)
If you don’t keep your version of wordpress up to date, spammers will chown you. It’s well worth the couple of hundred to buy a non-open-source piece of software for your blog. All versions of wordpress are given out with full sourcecode. If you have it, so do ‘They’. I remember being a CS major at UA and found it tough to afford my bad habits much less blogging software. You may want to visit http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools and add some kind of plugin to this install. I know when I first started on my php/mysql adventure and had a shared hosting account that feces would always happen to my stuff because other people are on the same box as you. It’s tough to maintain user integrity in shared environments.
Good luck with your spam situation. Take care of it before it takes care of you.
Thanks,
Dan
Tue Nov 20th, 2007 12:03 pm
Meghan (Quote)
I am a newbie with web-design, but that seems so weird and I would have imagined it impossible for a bot to spam your code! That is truly scary!!!
And also….welcome back!
Tue Nov 20th, 2007 8:43 pm
Thao (Quote)
Ugh, spam. I’ve had to close guestbooks and other forms due to it.
Why do they call it spam anyway? Does it have anything to do with the canned meat?
Tue Nov 20th, 2007 8:56 pm
kim (Quote)
;o That is very scary! I really do hope they can’t, so many people use and trust WP.
Wed Nov 21st, 2007 5:53 am
Jenn (Quote)
That’s weird. The only thing I can think of is perhaps you had a few templates writable, and spam somehow got into it?
By the way, happy belated Thanksgiving.
Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 5:39 pm