{"id":81,"date":"2015-04-14T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornas.wpengine.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-04-14T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:25:08","slug":"want-to-see-how-easy-it-is-to-attack-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2015\/04\/want-to-see-how-easy-it-is-to-attack-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to see how easy it is to attack WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks I have cleaned up a few infected\/compromised WordPress installs. The main source of these infections have been outdated plugins. For the ones I&#8217;ve fixed the hack mainly appeared to be coming from older versions of Gravity Forms that hadn&#8217;t been updated.<\/p>\n<p>I did notice that client sites with the outdated plugin but running on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=394686&amp;u=490768&amp;m=41388&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=\">WP Engine Hosting<\/a> were not affected at all.<\/p>\n<p>While fixing the sites I ran across these presentations by Mark Montague<\/p>\n<p>The first is an updated but significantly cut down version of a presentation he gave at WordPress Ann Arbor in January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~markmont\/awp\/<\/p>\n<p>First version<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~markmont\/wby\/<\/p>\n<p>What should you learn from this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attackers don&#8217;t attack your site personally (for the most part)<\/li>\n<li>They do this to send out spam with your site (mostly)<\/li>\n<li>They do it because it&#8217;s easy<\/li>\n<li>Update, Update, Update!<\/li>\n<li>Use better hosting like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=394686&amp;u=490768&amp;m=41388&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=\">WP Engine<\/a> to prevent hacks when you don&#8217;t update<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks I have cleaned up a few infected\/compromised WordPress installs. 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