Sphere Related Content coding mishap

So every now and then I’ll come across plugins that are just downright retarded with what they’re doing with their coding. Today it was Sphere Related Content. A wordpress site I was looking over for someone was white screening. An strace revealed the following query causing the problem:

“LECT post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = ‘$id'”

I’ve never heard of LECT before in mysql. Looks like someone forgot to test their plugin before they updated it. If you’re recently getting a white screen on your wordpress install and are using this plugin, I’d recommend deactivating it by removing it from the active plugins list in wp_options in the db. It’ll look something like this:

i:8;s:49:”sphere-related-content/sphere-related-content.php”;