Cross scripting redirect ?

  • After witnessing a spike in 404 error logs for my-site/~wakaclub/sprmbts/style.css I decided to have a closer look, when loading my-site/~wakaclub/sprmbts/style.css I get an error which is to be expected because none of these directories exist, however when I load my-site/~wakaclub/sprmbts/ I am redirected to another website and for the life of me am unable to find out how this is happening.

    I am on shared hosting and every single WP site on the same ip has the same symptom and after contacting my host I did not receive a reply and the ticket was closed, a bit disappointing to say the least but I have sent another ticket in.

    I have searched the database, scanned all WP files, checked all .htaccess files , disabled plugins, changed the default theme and more in search of this redirect but to no avail. I have also made a complete backup and loaded on a local machine but was unable to replicate the redirect.

    As far as I can tell I am not at fault but would love any thoughts you may have to improve my knowledge on this sort of thing.

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  • Tim Nash

    (@tnash)

    Spam hunter

    Ah shared hosting what joys, sounds like something your host has setup either intentionally or as likely misconfigured something. It could be a spam honey pot to try and trap rogue bots but as likely someone configured the wrong file.

    It’s not something you have done and it would be sending me alarm bells if I found this on one of my clients site and would want a explanation from the hosting company and would still be worried.

    Thread Starter asylum119

    (@asylum119)

    Cheers for the comment Tim sadly I wish it was a bot trap but it only affects the WP installs and not the other sites hosted on the same IP, it is a mexican website and I ended up IP blocking mexico because they were hitting my 404 log non stop.

    The host did get back to my second ticket but it was one of those standard responses that leave you wondering if they even read the ticket, might have to look at a different host as they seem unwilling to fix the rouge redirect and htaccess redirects on my end do not do anything for that particular url.

    Cheers again

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