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- Started 1 year ago by citizenkeith
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Unwanted Anonymous Posts?
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I maintain a website that has an install of bbPress 1.0.2. There haven't really been any posts in about a year (just one or two updates from moderators).
Today I viewed the forum to see hundreds of Anonymous spam posts.
This confuses me, since I don't have an Anonymous Posting plugin installed or enabled. Which makes me think somebody may have found a back door. I would like to close that door, but I have no idea where to start.
Thoughts?
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- Posted 1 year ago #
Ask your webhost to provide you with access logs of your site, and see where those _POST requests came from. You can also try updating to 1.0.3 which is tagged in the repository but not available for download via .zip quite yet.
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- Posted 1 year ago #
CK
did you get any answers?
Same thing is happening with a forum I have.There has to be a back door in, and it hasn't been plugged yet
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@3leggedcat I've been out of town, and haven't had a chance to look into it yet. As I stated in my original post, there hasn't been activity on that forum in a year, so for now I just took it offline. I'll be looking into it when I get home.
@Ben L. These posts were made long after I have deleted an account. With a deleted account, they wouldn't be able to log in a year later and post spam.
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- Posted 1 year ago #
Ben
we deleted the accounts
but these posts came in after I deleted them -
I checked my access logs for that day, and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Lots of registrations from the non-anonymous spammers, and lots of wp-cron.php for that domain. The forum is integrated with WP.
If anybody would like to have a look at the logs, let me know and I can send them your way. I'm not 100% sure what to look for.
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