Gary
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Joined: 28 May 2006
Posts: 298
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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: WordPress Hacked!! Stop your blog from being hacked |
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I thought I would write about WordPress and how one of my Blogs was hacked. It started with a letter from Google stating that the site was using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines. In the letter it showed a bunch of hidden text that was on the site.
After looking into it I noticed that someone had hacked the site and added hidden text to the Footer. I searched the net and found that this was happening more and more. I read a post from Matt Cutts over at Google and found that his WordPress Blog was hacked as well. Matt posted about three ways to protect your Wordpress installation. I did the three things he suggested but had some problems with the first one.
The first thing to do was to block your wp-admin folder from everyone except you. I ended up using this code in my .htaccess file.
| Code: | <Limit GET POST PUT>
deny from all
# whitelist home IP address
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# whitelist Work IP address
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Limit> |
You should create a .htaccess file in the wp-admin folder where the xxx... are replace with your ip address.
Also follow Matt's advice and create an index.html file in the plugins folder so know one can access that folder and see what plugins you are using.
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