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Revolution Slider Hacking Vulnerability Issue

This topic has 4 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 11 months ago ago by Eva Kemp

nuttys

Participant

December 5, 2014 at 12:39

Hi Guys,

Had the site hacked last month,and the hosting company informed me about it and i sorted the corrupt files out, but my site has stopped working and woocomeerce has un-installed itself and deleted all my products and customer details… basically destroyed the site and business from this site.

I contacted my hosting company who came back with this.

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I’m just looking into this for you now, looks like the malicious files were in your account since the earliest backup we have.

I’m just rescanning the account for you now to see what’s what and I’ll also see if we have backup from after you cleared it.

Just FYI, I’ve just been dealing with another customer with a very similar issue – basically it boils down to the presence of the revslider plugin – there is clearly a vulnerability with this plugin that is being actively abused.

The only fix I know of at the moment is to remove that plugin from your install otherwise it will be repeatedly hacked.

Looks like the malware scan I just ran came back clear, so I’d suggest restoring our backup from 3rd December for you – then locking to your IP whilst you sort out removing the revslider plugin and updating everything.

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I need to lock the IP for the website so only my machine can use it, but do not want to do it until speaking with you guys.

I have tried to delete the slider plugin but it wont allow it.

I need to act fast on this before they try another attack.

regards

Mark

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3 Answers

Eva Kemp

Support staff

December 5, 2014 at 20:00

Hello,

We’ve never received such notifications concerning Revolution Slider plugin.
All clients haven’t had problems with it.
If you need to remove it we can help you.
Please provide us with FTP and wp-admin panel credentials in Private Content.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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rwlee33

Participant

December 17, 2014 at 23:26

http://gizmodo.com/mysterious-russian-malware-is-infecting-over-100-000-wo-1671419522

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

December 18, 2014 at 09:35

Hello @rwlee33,

Thank you for sharing the information.
This issue was related to old versions of Revolution Slider plugin.
If your plugin is updated you shouldn’t worry. Also we can update the plugin for you if it’s not.

Thank you.
Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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