Hacked — WordPress or Host??

  • I got up this morning and found that my site had been hacked. The index file in the main root had been changed; which begs the question – was this file changed through wp-admin or my host.

    This is particularly disturbing as I have a reseller account hosting other wordpress themes.

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  • there are no known security issues with your version of wordpress
    most hacks are caused by a bad password(s) on a shared server

    Thread Starter bnther

    (@bnther)

    Samuel B

    Thanks for the reply.
    Is it even possible to change the index.php from wp-admin? And the index file I’m referring to isn’t the one in the themes folder, it’s the one that hangs outside of all of the folders. In other words, when I log into my host, it’s the only index file that can be seen.

    not from wp-admin
    but once on the server anywhere, they can pretty much inject anything they want to

    Thread Starter bnther

    (@bnther)

    That’s what I was thinking.

    GRRRR!!!

    These idiots from JustHost are smokin crack. Just out of professional curiosity, can you recommend a reliable host provider or is that taboo?

    I’ve used ASO for years without problems
    no host on a shared server is immune to hacks though – they are only as strong as their weakest user

    Thread Starter bnther

    (@bnther)

    Many thanks for your help. I greatly appreciate it!

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