Wordpress security problems.
Friday, June 20th, 2008One of my blogs was really down on traffic the last couple of weeks. Most of the traffic normally comes from google. I have written some good unique content in my native language on this blog and it ranks well for some keywords. I couldn’t really figure out what the problem was and my search engine ranking (SERP’s) hadn’t changed. While browsing digital point I came across a post about a Wordpress hack. Some code is injected to the wp-blog-header.php file, this code redirects search engine traffic to another site. I started checking all my blogs, and yes the blog that I have been working so hard on had some encrypted javascript code in that file. It’s the first time I had a security problem with one of my sites. It’s no fun working hard on a site doing your best to rank well with google and then having someone steal your search engine traffic…
To fix the problem I just deleted the whole blog (not the database of course) and installed a new wordpress, the latest version 2.5.1. I hope that does the trick. To be honest I should have updated this blog a long time ago. But I had some trouble with a plugin that didn’t work under the new 2.5 version. Lucklily I found a fix for that so I could upgrade without trouble.