Title: Widget Cache vulnerability?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Widget Cache vulnerability?

 *  [vich11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vich11/)
 * (@vich11)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-cache-vulnerability/)
 * Yesterday I happened to check the /wp-content/widget-cache directory and I found
   HUNDREDS of subdirectories for sites I had never heard of and many of which looked
   very sketchy (porn sites, etc.). I deleted all the directories and let the plugin
   recreate my local site sub-directory, and this morning I’m already seeing more
   unfamiliar directories in there:
 * 199.19.78.238/
    1f2a5db3d9b3a7df3345a4d43503bd4c/ 3bce3dd074f899d0e919ac4e9dfc1856/
   47330dff55c0c55ba8b1c2e222ce2158/ 63e21ec33b54094d2325990a8b3e6c05/ 999487ad80449975e0b0975c8e17032a/
   bestallgoods.com/ d4f2a0259bbc380dc61e7130a25b00f6/ pop.sc****t.com/ sc****t.
   com/ sc****t.com./ sc****t.com:80/ [http://www.lcg.org/](http://www.lcg.org/)
 * The ones that start with “sc” are my site. I’ve obfuscated the directory name
   for security reasons.
 * Why, and how, are other directories for other sites being created in the widget-
   cache directory? This is VERY disconcerting.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/)

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 *  [astrasuite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astrasuite/)
 * (@astrasuite)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-cache-vulnerability/#post-3434408)
 * Same here …. wonder how they got in …

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-widget-cache.svg)
 * [WP Widget Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-widget-cache/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-widget-cache/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-widget-cache/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-widget-cache/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-widget-cache/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-widget-cache/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)
 * [caching](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/caching/)
 * [widget cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget-cache/)
 * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [astrasuite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astrasuite/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-cache-vulnerability/#post-3434408)
 * Status: not resolved