Category: Wordpress


SOLVED: WordPress 2.5 and the annoying captcha to read

Filed Under: Wordpress by Jason L Froebe — Leave a comment
April 8, 2008

Hi all,

I’m sure you’ve noticed by now but every so often a captcha will pop up when you’re reading my blog. This appears to be a feature of WordPress 2.5 which I haven’t been able to disable yet. If anyone knows how to disable it, please let me know as the captcha is very annoying.

I’ve asked this on the WordPress.org forums as well: WordPress 2.5 and the annoying captcha

UPDATE: Looks like the culprit was http://crazyeddie.info/dealer/dealer.js in the footer.php file of the GlossyBlue 1.4 theme

The official download site http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/glossyblue/ doesn’t have this code. I did download it last week… hmmm

Otto42 over on the WordPress.org forums identified the script as:

It’s a captcha defeating system. It’s not checking if you’re human or not, it’s sending the results back to crazyeddie.info to let the thing bypass the captcha from some other site!

I just went through all the files and verified that the only java script files that are being pulled are official ones.  Kudos to Otto42!

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Got hacked and now we upgraded WordPress

Filed Under: News, Wordpress by Jason L Froebe — Leave a comment
September 20, 2007

During the last couple of days this blog was hacked twice due to the old version of WordPress that Yahoo! install on hosted websites. The first hack was sending out a virus which was removed and the site was repaired. The second was graffiti and the deletion of about 30% of the WordPress install.

I followed the WordPress upgrade instructions but ran into a snag where the WordPress user in the MySQL database didn’t have the permissions to alter the tables in the database. There are two solutions to this:

  1. Replace the DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD in wp-config.php with the yroot login password. I didn’t know the yroot password.
  2. Use phpMySQLAdmin to grant alter table privileges to the DB_USER. Since I didn’t have grant permissions, I had to modify the mysql.user table directly. Thanks goes to Alan Guilan for the method :)

We are now fully upgraded to the current release of WordPress.

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