This plugin just ate all of my bandwidth…twice!

  • Resolved Hackman

    (@hackman)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    I updated the plugin last night and right after my bandwidth went away and my site went down.
    I had my sever add bandwidth and monitor it.

    They just told me that the additional bandwidth went in a few minutes…80 gig!!!

    Now they have told me the bandwidth was used by this plugin:
    “While tracing the issue we found it to be an issue with wordpress plugin ‘simple-history’ and it was used for the attack.”

    They also sent this, whatever it means:
    =====================
    lstat(“/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-history/dropins”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0
    lstat(“/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-history”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0
    lstat(“/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-history/dropins/SimpleHistorySidebarStats.php”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6684, …}) = 0
    lstat(“/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-history/dropins”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0
    lstat(“/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-history”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0
    open(“/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-history/dropins/SimpleHistorySidebarStats.php”, O_RDONLY) = 5

    So, after accepting the last update in my admin area, the plugin has eaten over 80 gig of bandwith. Talk about DOS! This now is disabled and I hope others do not have this issue…very bad…and costly!

    Any ideas there?

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  • Thread Starter Hackman

    (@hackman)

    My server has now said they are not sure if a plugin was hacked, or if one had an issue. I can neither confirm or deny that this plugin had any issue or not. I do not know what the above code means, so I have no idea…I do know I’ve always liked this plugin…and hope it is not the issue.

    Plugin Author P?r Thernstr?m

    (@eskapism)

    Sorry to hear about the problems you’ve had. I’m also not sure what to do whit that information you got from the hosting company.

    It sounds unlikely that Simple History has anything to do with this. I would love to help out but there is just to little information to act on at the moment.

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