Wordpress has been the subject of numerous exploits over the years, and even if you've upgraded yourself to the latest and safest version, you may still have dirt lingering around from previous hacks. This script will find every installation of Wordpress, and delete entries from your options table that contains exploitable code.
It also checks the version of each installation to alert you if you need to upgrade. You can optionally create a tab-delimited report that you can open in your favourite spreadsheet software.
This script was written for Retrix Hosting (of which I am a partner), but we decided to give it away to anyone who would like to use it for the greater good.
This script was written in standard POSIX shell #!/bin/sh, and only tested on
FreeBSD. It should, however, work on the other BSDs, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. Other
requirements include:
- The 'mysql' command-line tool
- grep, sed, awk, tail, find
- The necessary permissions to scan through the folders in $basedir
- The script parses the wp-config.php file for each installation of Wordpress found, and will connect to the database server to gather information and remove offending rows.