Malicious Code in 3rd Party Wordpress Themes

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I recently ran across the article Do not download WordPress themes distributed by 3rd party sites on the 5thiryone blog. Apparently there are a number of 3rdparty free wordpress theme sites that are popping up all over the net that are including malicious code in the themes. What does this mean? Basically, the sites are placing small snippets of code in the themes that could potentially open up your server for their Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. This is very bad for your as a webmaster because not only does it waste your precious bandwidth, but it can also get your ip banned and cause numerous problems with your hosting possibly even getting your hosting canceled.

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  1. hellyeahdude.com
    January 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    yeah good call on informing everyone, thats pretty shitty that they put extra shit in the themes… especially for the creator of those themes, they could get blamed for that…

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