World writeable folders!?

  • I’m using Postie 1.1.1, and it only seems to work with photos if the wp-photos folder is set to world writeable (!?).

    Is anyone able to get it to work without these permissions? And, if not, shouldn’t there be a way to get it to work without such risky permissions?

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  • Set the ownership of the directory to that of the webserver. You may have to get with your webhost to work that out.,

    I would strongly encourage you NOT to have world writable permissions, owned by nobody, on your installation. I had just that scenario and my site was hacked.

    In a shared server environment, it is quite easy for someone with the knowledge to place a php script inside that world writable directory, install a rootkit and then basically do whatever they want in that directory. Happened to me and I am paying the price. My site completely lost its ranking in Google and I had over 85,000 spam links leading to my website directory where the hacker invaded. It was the wp-content/Uploads directory.

    I cannot believe that WP puts world writable directories in place.

    Also read this thread…
    https://www.webmasterworld.com/community_building/3040091.htm

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