Tips & Tricks
WordPress Security Hacks
Hi guys this is my first post on wpcult the great site Austin built. Hope you guys find it usefull.
If you run a blog using the wordpress software then your blog is a target to hackers. Below I will list some hacks and just how they can help you keep your business/site safe.
The following is code to Block Bad Queries and protect your blog from malicious URL Requests.
Place the following code into a text file and name it what ever you like for example blockbadqueries.php upload it to your plugin folder and activate it in your wordpress admin just as you would any other Plugin
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Block Bad Queries
Plugin URI: http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/12/22/protect-wordpress-against-malicious-url-requests/
Description: Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests
Author URI: http://perishablepress.com/
Author: Perishable Press
Version: 1.0
*/
global $user_ID; if($user_ID) {
if(!current_user_can(‘level_10’)) {
if (strlen($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]) > 255 ||
strpos($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], “eval(“) ||
strpos($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], “CONCAT”) ||
strpos($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], “UNION+SELECT”) ||
strpos($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], “base64”)) {
@header(“HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Long”);
@header(“Status: 414 Request-URI Too Long”);
@header(“Connection: Close”);
@exit;
}
}
}
?>
This Great plugin was made by Jeff Starr of Digging into WordPress
Protecting your blog with .htaccess
.htaccess files have lots of possibilities. below is some code that will help protect your wordpress from modification of _REQUEST and/or GLOBALS and scripts injection.
This is real simple just paste the following code into your .htaccess file. Always make a backup of your .htaccess before editing, better to be safe.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
Thanks to Oussama for this great hack
Here is a neat trick. Say you want to show a custom field in you post or in a certain categories post. There is a simple code you need to write in order to accomplish this:
<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", $single = true); ?>
<?php if($image != '') : if(in_category(7)) { echo ''; } else { ?>
<img src="<?php echo $image ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
In the example above I am calling the variable $image and telling the server that it equals the value of “image” inside get_post_meta or “custom field” of the current post.
Then we are asking if that variable $image doesn’t equal nothing or != and if it is in the category id of 7, echo what ever is in the single quotes (which is nothing in this example), otherwise show the <img> and the value inside “image” which should be the location of the image.
Update: Thanks to Austin from PressedWords for pointing out his trick, from the comment below.
I talked about Disabling search engine on search pages in a previous post using the meta tag. Today lets go over the web bots Cached copy of your site. If you are working on builder your blog, or have a temporary site up, use the following code:
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
This will tell any bot to follow your site, index it, but prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
A good idea when trying to get the most out of your blog is usging the meta tag to tell the web bots to search & index your site. But for good SEO you should apply this code in your header.php file of your WordPress blog.
<?php if(is_search()) { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
<?php }?>
This will keep your site from getting a hit from bots over duplicate entries. 🙂
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Wordpress Designer
June 21, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I was a victim few months back on one of my sites…. but later discovered that reasons were more about me and not WP… anyways nice info… Hail Open Source, long live WP….!
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June 24, 2011 at 4:48 pm
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June 27, 2011 at 11:26 am
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July 4, 2011 at 12:49 am
wordpress is a safe script anyway. But your codes will be improve this. Thanks i will use .
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July 10, 2011 at 11:40 pm
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July 12, 2011 at 4:16 pm
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July 14, 2011 at 3:27 pm
This article is of 2010 and all the information is valid in 2011, you got a really nice blog and I’ll bookmark it to read all the articles.
Toilet
July 25, 2011 at 4:00 am
That’s a very bad news that my wordpress blog is at risk of being hacked:/. You are doing a great job by informing us about such danger.
sheric
July 25, 2011 at 7:33 am
Thank you very interesting.
Ashley
August 2, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Thanks for the code. I have been looking for something to block bad queries and protect my blogs from malicious URL requests.
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August 2, 2011 at 9:22 pm
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August 5, 2011 at 3:18 am
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August 7, 2011 at 7:34 am
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August 8, 2011 at 4:16 am
This post provides best security for my WordPress Plugin to avoid the hacking.. I am just using this code right now..
Leonardo Casci
August 9, 2011 at 4:08 am
great article, you should write more often! keep it up
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August 18, 2011 at 9:34 pm
I m fully satisfied with the post that how to remove the hacking or not to hacking the word press because it results in a negative effect.we will be careful about that.
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August 21, 2011 at 9:39 am
When I had my hosting company, one of my client’s blogs kept getting hacked. I fixed it a half a dozen times before told him that he has to fix his own issues – pointed him to posts like this around the internet.
Good stuff!
Raief
August 24, 2011 at 1:19 am
Always looking for security info. This is still up-to-date.
Much appreciated, bookmarked, rt’d, fb’d, and dugg.
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August 26, 2011 at 5:45 am
Yes, website Security is very important, and i have a wordpress blog too, thanks for the post.
Michael Dorf
September 2, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Nice first post! I’ve used Block Bad Queries in a couple of blogs and it worked exceptionally well. I like plugins that require minimal configuration! Thanks!
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September 10, 2011 at 1:30 am
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September 21, 2011 at 4:38 am
Really good article, good to know about these security issues with my blog.
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September 21, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Thanks this is very useful. I will use this for all of my blogs.
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September 24, 2011 at 3:28 am
thanks for sharing!!! 😀
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October 11, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Nice code. I will try it.
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October 11, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Great article. It is always good to add in extra layers of safety, especially when it comes to protecting your business or name.
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October 13, 2011 at 2:39 am
I am an electrical & electronics engineer, and i am thinking about joining APPIN institute of ethical hacking & IT security bcoz I am interested in this field, so will there be better career options for me in this field after having an international diploma certification in ethical hacking?
Stuart
October 17, 2011 at 5:30 am
Great post, and hope you keep writing for the site. We are moving our site to WordPress so will be implementing these tips to keep it secure.
David Josh
October 18, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Thank you for the code, I was looking for something like this for long, my website has been hacked once and I needed something urgently to safe guard, shall try this. Thanks !
Rob Benwell
October 19, 2011 at 3:33 am
Thank you for sharing this tool. Now I know that I’m in a safe hand. More Power!
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Bryan McKenzie
October 23, 2011 at 12:00 pm
This has happened to me once before. Thanks for sharing this information, it’s always good to be cautious about these things and keep our websites protected. For a lot of people it’s their livelihood!
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October 24, 2011 at 5:19 am
Hey, thanks for the good tips. Am always in search of good safety information for WordPress. They are easy to implement even for beginners.
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October 25, 2011 at 8:34 am
Your postings are really very informative, that’s why I can’t help myself but come back and see what you posted again for me to gain knowledge. Thank you.
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October 26, 2011 at 5:30 am
I was hacked one and since than I started paying more attention to security!
So thank for this post..I will implement it right away!
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October 26, 2011 at 11:29 pm
very informative thanks lotttt
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October 28, 2011 at 2:13 am
This is great post,very useful! I think i will improve my website security…
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October 30, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Thanks for the great info on protecting my blog!
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October 30, 2011 at 8:59 pm
I think i have to improve my web security ASAP.
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