Website Hacked

  • Resolved kater89

    (@kater89)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    I have many websites, all on different servers, that have been hacked somehow. (There are a few overlapping plugins so I am wondering if that is the problem.)

    My Google “Content Keywords” are not correct. They contain words like “swy” and “besb” in them but I can’t figure out where they are coming from!

    Things that I have tried:

    • Reinstalled WordPress (Deleted it and then reinstalled it fresh from www.remarpro.com)
    • Did a search in the database (nothing came back)
    • Reinstalled all plugins (Deleted it and then reinstalled it fresh from www.remarpro.com)
    • Looked through every line of the theme which I custom created. No iFrames, php code or anything else that wasn’t part of the original code.
    • Used every website that I could find to scan the site
    • scanned the website with wordfence security plugin.
    • These sites are all fairly new and are pretty much all up to date (most are completely up to date)
    • None of these words are showing up in the source code on any page

    Common Plugins between sites:

    • All in one SEO
    • BackupBuddy
    • Contact Form 7
    • Disable Comments
    • GA Google Analytics
    • Google XML Sitemaps
    • Wordfence Security

    Any ideas of things to try would be very helpful!

    Thanks

    Any help would be great.

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  • Thread Starter kater89

    (@kater89)

    Hi abletec,

    Thank you so much for your help! Yes I am aware of the MailPoet plugin issue and at the time being we deleted everything related to it and I commented out the code in the blog just in case we decided to add it back in. I really appreciate you pointing this out though.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I would think the reason you are seeing a slightly different string and a Korean character could be attributed to a later version of TypeKit, since the article abletec found is a couple years old. To explain why the keywords show up in some sites and not others, it might be just how Google decides what constitutes keywords. A different context may cause it to ignore the strings in some sites. I understand Google will ignore keywords, using some secret metric, to counteract SEO attempts at keyword stuffing.

    I don’t think this anything to really worry about even though its appearance in Webmaster Tools is certainly annoying. If Google thinks these are legitimate keywords, I doubt your page ranks are negatively affected. I’d actually be more concerned for the sites using TypeKit that do not have these as keywords, they could be penalized for keyword stuffing.

    Why do I think I’ve read somewhere that a limited database user would cause problems w/WordPress?

    You very well may have. Running WP as a restricted DB user would certainly cause problems if overly restricted. It pretty much needs full control over its own DB, but I can’t imagine why preventing it from managing DB users or accessing other DBs would cause any issues.

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