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Possible security hole [Solved]

  • @fizk

    Member

    I’m running a BuddyPress 1.2.8, WordPress Mu 3.1 site and a bot somehow manages to always create accounts, about 5 per day, even though account registration is disabled in /wp-admin/network/settings.php, and for each of my sites.

    For example, the last account created had username “ramonlpa” and email “fidankaisageh @gmail.com”, and was not associated with any site (i.e. the site field is blank).

    This has been happening for a long time. When I first found out, the bot had created 3000 accounts.

    I’m also running bbPress with the WordPress Integration, so the hole might be in bbPress.

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  • @pisanojm

    Participant

    check to see if you have any other “admins” in your users… maybe you have an admin account that has been hacked and they are being generated from the inside?

    @djpaul

    Keymaster

    bbPress is most likely in your setup

    @fizk

    Member

    Pisanojm,

    I don’t have any other admin accounts in my system.

    @fizk

    Member

    Paul Gibbs,

    Yes, I have a separate bbPress install that integrates with WordPress via the Wordprss Integration.

    @fizk

    Member

    Pisanojm, I just changed the password of every account in case they’ve guessed the password for one of the accounts.

    @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    Disable bbPress registration on your external install:
    https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

    @fizk

    Member

    r-a-y,

    Thanks, I’ve disabled registration. Hopefully this stops the bots completely.

    @fizk

    Member

    r-a-y,

    That seemed to do the trick! Thanks :)

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