{"id":3581,"date":"2015-06-10T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2015\/06\/10\/link-template-php-suspected\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:52:42","slug":"link-template-php-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/link-template-php-suspected\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress link-template.php.suspected Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-striped table-bordered\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Issue:<\/th>\n<td>Some WordPress user are reporting a <strong>link-template.php.suspected<\/strong> error message. This is possibly related to a previous security vulnerabilty, or hack that was never fixed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Status:<\/th>\n<td>InMotion Hosting and the WordPress community are currently investigating this report.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Who is impacted?<\/th>\n<td>Only <em>some<\/em> users of WordPress are reporting this issue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information: See the post regarding the &#8220;<strong>link-template.php.suspected<\/strong>&#8221; issue in the Official <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/link-templatephpsuspected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress Support Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What can I do?<\/h2>\n<p>While the WordPress community is still trying to determine the origin of this issue, we have found ways to determine files that may be compromised.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The following command has been successful in identifying injected code (run it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/whm\/how-to-enable-ssh-through-whm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSH<\/a>):\n<div class=\"code_block\">egrep -Rl &#8216;\\$GLOBALS.*\\\\x|function.*for.*strlen.*isset&#8217; public_html<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you find files that have been injected with code, or hacked, we recommend the following guide:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/backup-and-restore\/recovering-from-a-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Recovering after a Hack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue: Some WordPress user are reporting a link-template.php.suspected error message. 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Additional information: See the post<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/link-template-php-suspected\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4288,4325,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website","category-wordpress-hosting","category-wordpress"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WordPress link-template.php.suspected Issue | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/link-template-php-suspected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WordPress link-template.php.suspected Issue | InMotion Hosting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Issue: Some WordPress user are reporting a link-template.php.suspected error message. 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