Title: Potential hack attempt
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Potential hack attempt
* [wildeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeep/)
* (@wildeep)
* [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-hack-attempt/)
* After noting a ‘headers already sent’ error, I found these three lines at the
bottom of a wordpress ‘wp-config.php’ file today:
* ```
```
* which after a bit of processing, turn out to be these lines of javascript:
* document.write(‘’);
* and
* document.write(‘’);
* respectively.
* I’ve pulled these lines (which removed the ‘headers already sent’ error)
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* Thread Starter [wildeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeep/)
* (@wildeep)
* [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-hack-attempt/#post-663109)
* Other than updating to the most recent version of WP, what else should I be doing
to reduce the number/severity of attacks?
* Thread Starter [wildeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeep/)
* (@wildeep)
* [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-hack-attempt/#post-663417)
* found some more:
* at the bottom of wp-app.php
* nobody:nobody set to 644
*
* at the bottom of wp-cron.php
* nobody:nobody set to 644
*
* Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
* (@otto42)
* WordPress.org Admin
* [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-hack-attempt/#post-663418)
* What version of WordPress are you using? Older versions may be vulnerable to
hacking. Upgrade to the latest version.
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* In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
* 3 replies
* 2 participants
* Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
* Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-hack-attempt/#post-663418)
* Status: not resolved
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