Web news: Mashable hacked? or WordPress vulnerability

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Dragos in Internet Life, Web Buzzz

I’ve just noticed a strange issue on Mashable.com . If I go page by page, starting with page nr 1 till page nr 5, when I hover my mouse on the other page links, some strange text is appended to the url. I don’t think my machine has been hacked or virused, as I work on a Ubuntu Linux OS with latest security patches. The additional text is: http://freewebtown.com/fucku/fx29id.txt?? . I’ve checked that page, but it doesn’t exist (redirected to another website). Freewebtown is a hosting company, whereas fucku seems to be a member of Freewebtown. Here’s a photo with it:

Mashable hacked

Has anyone else noticed it?

PS: This happened only on a Firefox 3.5.3 . I’ve checked the website with Opera 10 and the issue disappeared.

                    
                    

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