Title: Security Problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Security Problem

 *  [iselltheta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iselltheta/)
 * (@iselltheta)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-problem-9/)
 * A user of my site found a security problem. If they begin typing in a comment
   and then highlight any word in that comment field and then type Ctrl U and Ctrl
   B a browser opens on their computer with source code for my site. They are using
   Chrome for a browser.
 * Obviously I don’t want to tell the name of the site for security reasons but 
   was hoping someone could give me some insight as to what the possible fix would
   be.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [Daemus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daemus/)
 * (@daemus)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-problem-9/#post-2430860)
 * Don’t highlight anything on this page. Just hit CTRL+U. It should open a page
   with the source code for this page. Alternatively, you should also be able to
   just right-click an empty spot on this page and, in the menu that opens, find
   an option that says something to the effect of “View Page Source”.
 * Go to Google.com. Try it there. One of the biggest companies in the world, and
   arguably the most net saavy, has viewable source code. Having viewable source
   code is not a security risk (at least not one that is avoidable). It is required
   for your browser, giving the browser the information it needs to be able to know
   what it should show you when you visit a site.
 * **Edit to note that Ctrl+U opens page source in FireFox and Chrome. Ctrl+B in
   FF opens bookmarks. Ctrl+B in Chrome for older versions opened bookmarks (changed
   to Ctrl+Shift+B). If you are using Opera, Ctrl+F3 will open page source. In IE
   8, Alt+V+C opens page source (used to be Ctrl+U). For others, you will have to
   look that up.
 *  Thread Starter [iselltheta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iselltheta/)
 * (@iselltheta)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-problem-9/#post-2430864)
 * Daemus – thank you very much.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Security Problem’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [iselltheta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iselltheta/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-problem-9/#post-2430864)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics