Simplelender hacks?

  • Simplelender was just installed on my site without my knowledge. I don’t know how the hack occurred – I’m investigating whether another plug-in was hacked and it was inserted through their zip files.

    In the meantime, I’m posting this as an alert that someone is trying to add the plug-in to other sites, probably to fake affiliate references.

    Initially, the plug-in could not be de-activated because it gave an error message that the premium version needed to be removed first. There was no premium version.

    I have removed the files from the server and that appears to have removed the plugin but I’m still researching to learn how it got in

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  • Anonymous User 652281

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    Exactly the same situation here. I don’t know how I got it and I can only remove it via FTP.

    Thread Starter gvenditto

    (@gvenditto)

    David:

    Did you ever have install the GravityForms plugin? The only evidence of simplelender in my site after I deleted simplelender’s files and folders was found in the database tables of GravityForms. I had de-activated GravityForms a few hours before the simplelender attack took place.

    I found it by scanning all of my database tables looking for simplelender and there it was in a GravityForms table.

    I used WP-Optimize to remove that table along with every other table left by Gravityforms and simplelender.

    I just noticed the plugin installed on my site. I just installed the zapier addon for GravityForms.

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