What does a security risk in a plugin look like?

Personal Opinion: I had the same thing with (mt) mediatemple twice last year. They told me/us that it was a wordpress issue, but it wasn’t. I heard the same from dreamhost last year. So: don’t think about it too much, just remove the hack and blame your host (again).

Anyway: You could read this thread. If your DB got “infected”: There’s also a link to the plugin I wrote to remove the inserted links from my database. Give it a try.

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