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Wordpress & Vbulletin Sites Hacked


mimmson

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I had 2 different sites with hacked with the same message left on both. One site is a Wordpress Site, the other is VBulletin. I am uploading the current versions, but curious about 2 different apps bing hacked at the same time, on the same server.

 

Like TCH-Thomas said - you can hack just about anything if they get your cpanel login info.

 

As for how, at least as far as WordPress, two ways:

 

1) Edit data directly in the MySQL database. A pain in the butt and most won't bother.

 

2) Simply view your wp-config.php to get the database password and then login to WP - many people use the same database password as their WP admin password. As I said, they can edit directly in the database, but it's such a pain most won't try.

 

Best to use three seperate passwords - one for cpanel, one for wordpress, and one for the database that wordpress accesses.

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