Post Spam
March 16, 2008 – 5:48 am
I don’t know whats wrong with WordPress but I have been getting tons of spam links, and unlike all the other wordpress bloggers who get spam in their comments, they are in my post itself!
It’s only appearing in the most recent post, so basically this post is going to get spammed as long as it stays on the top of the blog. Fortunately, all the spam links don’t appear even though the post is modified and injected with them, and for some reason the comments and pingbacks are turned off once the spam is there. Now I have been searching all over the Internet and WordPress Forums but I haven’t got any solution yet. No body has addressed this problem anywhere. Only one user at the forum replied and told me he had the same problem with no solution. I have tried manually editing the post, I removed all the spam and turned comments and pingbacks back on, a few hours later, same thing happened.
The way I see it, it’s a vulnerability in WordPress and even though I upgraded to the latest 2.3.3 version, it’s still there.
UPDATE: Problem fixed. Apparently my ‘admin’ account’s password was leaked (exploited?) and the spam kept coming since an admin can technically edit/do anything. I have no idea how they figured the password - it’s impossible to guess I promise. Anyway, password changed and just to feel better, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.
2 Responses to “Post Spam”
Are you using Akismet?
By 3baid on Apr 8, 2008
Yea. Though Akismet is for comments spam rather than the actual post spam.
Anyway, problem solved: apparently somehow those spammers managed to figure out my impossible-to-guess ‘admin’ password and as far as I changed it the whole thing stopped. I also upgraded to version 2.5 but that is irrelevant.
By Aziz on Apr 8, 2008