I am seeing an ambigous link (which I didnt create) in source code of my page

  • My website is MANanatomy.com. If you go to it and visit the source code you would see
    <div style="position:absolute; left:-9999px; "><ul><li>Sie mussen nur Casino Spielautomaten schlagen <a href="https://www.onlinecasinospielen.biz/">casinos</a> wichtige Aufgabe fur ein Affiliate-Casino ist in den Casinos zu fordern Casino ist eine Welt von Ruhm und Geld wollen die Online-Roulette spielen</li></ul></div>
    near the end of the page. I haven’t created this link and I cannot find it in any of my wordpress pages (footer.php, page.php, header.php etc)
    I need to know 2 things?
    1) How to locate and then remove this link?
    2) Am I at some security risk? As, I haven’t created this link, someone else must have done it and that someone else is likely to have silent access to my website’s admin area.

    Please help me.
    This link is to some Casino website and my SERP is being affected by it badly.

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  • https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

    https://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/

    https://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Hardening_WordPress

    Check at the bottom of your index.php files – the one in your wordpress directory, and the one in your theme directory.

    The links appear just before the closing body tag, so if it isn’t located in footer.php, and you don’t see it at the bottom of an index.php, you may need to download your files to your desktop and “grep”, or search them for the link information.

    You are using an older version of wordpress, so there is the possibility that you may have had an intrusion of some sort.

    Thread Starter Ahsaniqbalkmc

    (@ahsaniqbalkmc)

    I have downloaded all files on my server and searched them for the terms “Casino” through DOS’s find Command and also by using TextCrawler. But unfortunately I haven’t found anything in all the files on my server.
    How is this possible that a link is appearing on my website and none of the files on my website contain the link.
    Please help me on this issue

    I just checked your site again, and it’s no longer in your source code. It appears to be gone for now. Perhaps the upgrade you’ve done from 3.0.4 to 3.1.1 has overwritten the files that contained the offending code? That may not necessarily mean the problem is fixed, though.

    Thread Starter Ahsaniqbalkmc

    (@ahsaniqbalkmc)

    Ok then what should I don now. I have upgraded the plugins as well. But how can I make my website more secure. Nothing on my website has changed which most likely means that the access was made by an automated script or program and not a hacker. But it is still a probability.
    Another thing I want to share that might help in clearing my problem. With the appearance of the link, although my search traffic wasn’t much affected, but my Adsense earnings were. When I checked my adsense account, I found that the adsense bot has a lot of Crawler access errors. Is this in some way related to the presence of link?

    When I checked my adsense account, I found that the adsense bot has a lot of Crawler access errors. Is this in some way related to the presence of link?

    I can only guess. I think the best advice may be to continue on as though you still have a vulnerability, and thoroughly review the information in the links Samuel left for you. The last link in particular, gives a great review of the different things that could leave you vulnerable, and what you should check to make sure that you aren’t. There are also links at the end of that article to other resources that can help you secure things.

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