WP-Stats Virus in Wordpress Blogs – How to prevent it?

2008 June 4
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by MoiN
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WP-Stats VirusA lot of people are getting infected by this WP-Stats Virus in wordpress. WP-Stats is a trojan horse and is infecting a lot of bloggers using wordpress. Mainly WP-Stats virus is hitting people who are using Wordpress version 2.3.3.

What Does WP-Stats Virus do?

WP-Stats virus creates a directory in your wp-contents folder named “1″ and creates a directory of list of “search engine-friendly” gambling, porn, and other illegal sites.

Where does WP-Stats virus comes from?

WP-Stats virus comes from infected websites which are flagged by Google. I’m assuming that the plugin WP-Stats is bugged and infected as well. WP-Stats WP-Stats 2.0 are Affected for sure. According to Net Security

WP-Stats WordPress Plugin contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to carry out an SQL injection attack. The issue is due to the wp-stats.php script not properly sanitizing user-supplied input to the ‘author’ variable. This may allow an attacker to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the backend database.”

How to remove WP-Stats Virus?

Well, there isn’t a 100% solution out yet but you should take these steps to get least infected.

- Upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version

- Delete the folder wp-content/1 through your wordpress control panel since it contains the trojan.

- I’m not sure if you can access yourblog.com/wp-admin because WP-Stats hits it too else you should remove the plugin.

- Avoid installing any new plugins

- Try changing your theme because there are some themes that calls for the script.

I would also recommend you to read these blogs which basically confronted this trojan, for more information.

JasonMorrison
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14 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 June 5

    So it’s more of a plugin that is vulnerable and not WordPress itself.

  2. 2008 June 5

    There are some sites that are flagged by google, it gives a warning before you enter.. And I recommend that you shouldn’t.
    Wordpress’s SQL is vulnerable and the trojans can get in, yes with helps of plugins etc.

  3. 2008 June 5

    I suggest everyone to use wassup wordpress plugin… Extremely useful!

  4. 2008 June 9

    Hey, you are talking about a very old version of wordpress 2.3.3. 2.5.1 is out. Besides, you are not even mentioning who is getting infected, the user or the server?

    Just upgrade wordpress if you still haven’t. That should solve the problem. Besides, you could use the Stats plugin that uses wordpress.com API. That is surely safe, I guess.

  5. 2008 June 9

    Yes, I know, I actually know someone who was infected by this last week.. and a lot of people are still using the old version!

  6. 2008 June 10

    That’s bad. I wonder why they are still using the old version. Probably theme compatibility?

    Whatever the reason, if they do not upgrade, they are losing out on all the new features.. pity.. :(

  7. 2008 June 17
    roderich permalink

    hi, i am having wp 2.5 and still got infected. i cannot log in to admin mode anymore and honestly quite lost. somebody have some help?
    roderich

  8. 2008 July 1

    Thanks for this. Article who your writen was so important for me. Thanks again :)

  9. 2008 July 23

    Great information for me, Thanks.

  10. 2008 December 31

    You have provided me a good info of wordpress issues. I am new to wordpress and currently using blogger and will switch to wordpress soon. Thanks for this info.

  11. 2009 February 20

    Thanks for the info. I just noticed today that I had a wp-content/1 folder in two of my blogs.

    Grrr.

  12. 2010 February 15

    Очень интересная. глубокая мысль – заставило задуматься.

  13. 2010 February 16

    Привет, сегодня на моих глазах произошла просто шокирующая история. В практически пустом вагоне электрички, возвращалась домой в дачный поселок. В вагоне никого практически не было, впереди нас сидела девушка. Лет 19, наверное. Пожилая пара и еще несколько женщин. Из тамбура в вагон пришла компания гопоты. 5 человек, лет по 20-25. Ничего не говоря, я просто оторопела, подбежали к той молодой девушке, заломили руки через сиденье. Один из подонков пирачинный нож достал и прошел по вагону, осматривая сидящих людей. Я тогда не знаю, просто душа в пятки ушла. Он сказал, что то вроде сидите смирно и вам ничего не сделают. В общем, с девушке стащили джинсы, одежду верхнюю. Один руки держал, второй сверху навалился, рот залепили. Достали ремень, и стали пряжкой пороть. Я была в шоке. Изверги по очереди ее пороли, я да же не знаю, сколько времени прошло, минут 30, наверное, пороли пока она сознания не потеряла, потом насиловали. Закончили, обмякшее тело девушки положили на сидение, оделись и спокойно пошли обратно в тамбур. Я просто в шоке страшном, как только они ушли, выбежала на следующей остановке, бежала долго, не помню куда и что. Всю ночь руки тряслись, не знаю, что стало с той девушкой, что вообще это было. Ужас, я теперь боюсь ездить в электричке.
    А вы тут говорите о порядочности какой-то, где она, если такое просто происходит на людях.

  14. 2010 March 20

    Хмм… подчерпнул много нового. Спасибо за это.

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