What are the risks of this? there was an article(1) a while back which went through the google hits of "free wordpress themes" which had either base64 obfuscate

What are the risks of this? there was an article(1) a while back which went through the google hits of "free wordpress themes" which had either base64 obfuscated js code directly in the theme code. What are the chances of code allowing other attack vectors? (1) - http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-search-for-free-wordpress-themes-in-google-or-anywhere-else/ http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-search-for-free-wordpre...