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Last night I wrote a mildly controversial blog post about religion on my weblog, and this morning I woke up to find that my display name had been changed to the name of a fanatic religious leader. The name was actually added to the user_meta database; deleting that value reverted my display name back to my username.

How could this happen and what can I do to protect against it?

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You're lucky that's all they did. – Dunhamzzz Sep 23 '11 at 8:14

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Make sure to protect your file directories, don't make them writable by you only!

Red up: http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

And download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/

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Thanks, that helps... still, it's strange to think that someone was actually able to break into my site - I don't know what went wrong. – Yuttadhammo Sep 23 '11 at 3:48
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Also ALWAYS use the lastest version of WordPress and use quility plugins.

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