My Wordpress install got hacked

It was an old version. I reckon I should upgrade.

A plugin was installed in /tmp/ro8kbsmawge.txt that was apparently spamming people. *sigh*

Anyway, the only way I discovered it was hacked was because I was getting an error while uploading images from MarsEdit.

I was getting an XMLParse error and no data was coming back in the response.

Here’s a write up:

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3 Responses to “My Wordpress install got hacked”

  1. Hank Says:

    Ouch, what a pain in the butt!

  2. tim.harding Says:

    my own damn fault for not upgrading regularly.

  3. tim.harding Says:

    it does speak for blogging tools as a managed service though. perhaps i should migrate to blogger or something.

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