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Rackspace Hacked Clients, Check Your Databases: Wordpress "wp_optimize" Backdoor
Jun 16, 2010 @ 16:39:45

If you're a WordPress user and have an instance running on a Rackspace server, you should read this article to be sure you keep your site safe.

Just finished cleaning up a hacked client whose website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud hosting. I had discovered that there were a large number of people all on the same IP as my client a couple of weeks ago who all got hacked. [...] It looks like the culprit might have been a security hole in phpmyadmin. Hopefully this will turn out to be what was wrong, because Rackspace upgraded all of their installations of that package this past Saturday.

No matter the cause, there's a quick fix that can help protect your installation from the hack attempts making their way around. The problem was an injection directly into the wp_options table with the autoload turned on and a content field containing some PHP code. This code was executed each time the page loaded. They also include a bit of SQL you can run to check and see if there's any entries that might have made their way in.

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