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Hell, I even had a non-important, BS Rails app get shut down on shared hosting (Webfaction) because someone tried random WP exploits on it (some plugin that acc
by greg5green 11y ago
Hell, I even had a non-important, BS Rails app get shut down on shared hosting (Webfaction) because someone tried random WP exploits on it (some plugin that accepted a POST and could be exploited via the payload). Rack stored the payload in a temp file and Webfaction saw the tmp file as a new file I didn't upload and suspended the app.
The first time it happened, I just deleted the file and went forward. The second time, I just deleted the app. I know I could write a script to deal with this, but it was just a test, playground type app. All it did was make me say I needed to move my "blog" off WordPress and stop trying to host Rails apps on Webfaction.
PS: The domain the Rails app was on had never hosted a WP site ever before. WP is just so ubiquitous that that they were just trying to hack any site -- even one that had like 3 organic visitors ever.