Security issue – post by unregistered user
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An unregistered user has managed to post. It’s not live but awaiting moderation, however they shouldn’t be able to get that far should they? This is the scenario/setup:
- posts are restricted to registered users
- “Anyone can register” is unselected
- I’ve not had any register requests
- There are only 2 registered users
- Also checked the wp_users MySQL table, only 2 users
- The site is not easy to find (content only intended as read-only for a group of friends) address is not published and is in a subdirectory of the domain. robots.txt is set to disallow search robots
- Post via e-mail NOT enabled
- “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” ticked
- Only one plugin enabled (PWA+PHP Picasa Web Albums for WordPress)
- The wordpress implementation is quite basic – minimal customisation of Twenty Ten
- The post awaiting moderation is japanese and the field that would normally contain an email address contains
armic-sp.si/slike/coach-b-9.html
Any idea how they achieved this and how to block in future (I have blacklisted the IP of this posting)
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