Burchwords

I’m running the 2.5.1 version of Wordpress. I installed the plugin wp-cache. This was a big mistake, for me of course, others might have a different story. Out of the box wp-cache would cause my blog to throw 500 server errors every other time you would refresh the page. There were no problems with the Admin dashboard. So, I knew it had to be related with the plugin. So, I tried to delete the cache inside the plugin, that didn’t work. I tried to disable the plugin, that didn’t work either.

So, the order in which I stopped this plugin from causing havoc on my site was this.

1. Go and delete the cache out of the plugins settings page. (Even if there is nothing to delete)
2. The disable wp-cache from the settings page. (Dashboard –> Settings –> WP-Cache)NOT THE PLUGIN PAGE.
3. Then I deleted the plugin from my plugin directory.

There seems to be a flaw in wordpress 2.3.3. I was hit by a hack that put a folder called “1″ with all kinds of spam links to poker sites. I wasn’t the only one apparently this was wide spread. The two links have most of the information on the fix and why it happened. I’m glad 2.5 is out.

http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/automated-wordpress-hacking-tool-cached-by-google/
http://cyberinsecure.com/wordpress-doorway-spam-attacks/

I just want to know how people are able to inject their own stupid links into my wordpress post? Today is the 2nd time while using wordpress to find code that was linked to some unknown source. The first time it was to some server in China. Now there some poker links in one of my most popular post. It was about 150 lines of links it was ungodly.

I wonder if anybody else is having this problem?

Problem

After upgrading early this morning to 2.3 , I actually lost one of my static pages. When the database updated it made my “download” page a post instead of a static page. The link still showed up in the navigation list, but it took you to a 404 error page.
Caution: Backup the Database!

Quick Fix :

After I stop beating my face against my keyboard, I opened up mysql database found that the “download” was listed under wp_post table.

So, I found the field listed as “download” and browsed that field of data. There it all was under post_title. I viewed the table and copied the html code out of the wp_content column. I then pasted that in a text file and saved it.

I deleted that row with “Downloads” in the post_title from the database. I then created created a whole new static page and name it the same thing as the old one and then pasted the code from the text file back into the page and posted. I was back up in less than ten minutes.

If anybody is better at wording this please do so or comment a link or something. I know there has to be sql statement that would do this automatically for you.