Title: Active Theme Footer.php Malware
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Active Theme Footer.php Malware

 *  [jenniethai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniethai/)
 * (@jenniethai)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/active-theme-footerphp-malware/)
 * A Chinese website keeps inserting a malware script into the footer.php of the
   active theme at our website: [http://www.sophisticatesblackhairstyles.com/](http://www.sophisticatesblackhairstyles.com/)
 * Does anyone know of any way to prevent this from happening again? Is there anything
   that I can do? This has already happened 4 times.
 * Please help.

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 *  [ryans149](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryans149/)
 * (@ryans149)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/active-theme-footerphp-malware/#post-1183680)
 * 1) check the logs and see how they are doing this
    2) Which theme are you using?
   Is it from a known provider or any unknown theme provider? Try changing the theme
   3) Try to revoke the permissions..
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/active-theme-footerphp-malware/#post-1183681)
 * General advice:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
 * If this keep on happening, you might want to contact your hosting provider. Just
   because your site has been hacked doesn’t mean that your site is the problem.
   A server is only as strong as it’s weakest point and that weak point could be
   anywhere on the server.
 *  [eucopyright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eucopyright/)
 * (@eucopyright)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/active-theme-footerphp-malware/#post-1184171)
 * Looks like you fixed it, I just went over your HTML and did not see anything 
   fishy…
 * What was the cure?

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## Tags

 * [active theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/active-theme/)
 * [badware](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/badware/)
 * [footer.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/footer-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [eucopyright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eucopyright/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/active-theme-footerphp-malware/#post-1184171)
 * Status: not resolved

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