Title: WordPress Theme Security Vulnerabilities
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Theme Security Vulnerabilities

 *  [themey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themey/)
 * (@themey)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/)
 * I feel it is my duty to highlight some security vulnerabilities related to WordPress
   themes, and ask how the problems can be resolved.
    When you upload a WordPress
   theme to your webserver you are uploading not just a benign template, but a PHP
   program which can contain code that performs pretty much anything. I have given
   some examples of problems including blackhat code on [my blog](http://themey.com/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/).
 * I hope that someone has thought these problems through and can provide an answer
   for the WP community?

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/#post-548453)
 * So instead of actually listing the issues you’ve come across, you’re just driving
   up traffic to your site and having folks view your adverts.
 * Nice.
 *  [charle97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charle97/)
 * (@charle97)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/#post-548456)
 * themey, are you a blackhat?
 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/#post-548467)
 * Yes, themey seems to specialise in being so busy trying to drive traffic to her
   website that she has no time to fix her **site errors** that I [reported](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/110984)
   over two weeks ago.
 *  Thread Starter [themey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themey/)
 * (@themey)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/#post-548492)
 * drmike: I can’t show images here can I? If you would like to reproduce the story
   on the forum you are welcome to.
    charlie97: nope, I’m not a blackhat. If I was
   I would have used this information rather than sharing it. pizdin_dim: Thanks
   for the information about the errors. I actually can’t reproduce them, maybe 
   you could detail which browser you are using. Sorry I didn’t see your reply the
   first time 🙁

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## Tags

 * [blackhat](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blackhat/)
 * [Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [themey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themey/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-security-vulnerabilities/#post-548492)
 * Status: not resolved

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