Spinning arrows and spam

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    What plugins do you use? Definitely the spam link is a problem and it’s also the direct cause of the spinning arrow issue. I think it’s not your theme because you’re using one from WordPress themes directory.

    Thread Starter rachelorchard

    (@rachelorchard)

    The other plugins are Akismet, Display Widgets, Facebook, MaxButtons, and WordPress Importer.

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    You seem to have fixed the issue. What was the problem?

    Any chance you’re on iPowerWeb as a host?

    I found a couple other people experiencing similar spam links. The common elements were the hosting company and each theme’s functions.php had malicious lines similar to this:

    <?php $wp_user_functions_init = create_function('$a',strrev(';)a$(lave'));
...
(a bunch of encoded text)
...
(edoced_46esab(lave')); ?>

    Once these were removed, the spam links were gone and our contact forms worked, reliably, again. Of course, this doesn’t fix the attack vector in the hosting company. ??

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