Home/ Questions/Q 7841229
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-02T16:03:29+00:00

I have a huge WordPress XML export. Unfortunately, some bastard managed to inject code

  • 0

I have a huge WordPress XML export. Unfortunately, some bastard managed to inject code into the installation and injected DIVs into the content.
Now I want to clean that mess up. Here’s what it looks like:

<p>Normal Text</p>
<div style="position:absolute;top:-9660px;left:-4170px;"><a href="http://insane.link.com">Insane Linktext</a></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:-2460px;left:-5370px;"><a href="http://insane.link.com">Another Insane Linktext</a></div>
<p>Normal good people's brains' text</p>

I thought about using some regex expression to match the DIVs containing a STYLE attribute. Available tools are Aptana or other TextEditors and a PHP Server as well as a OSX Terminal. Any Suggestions for this?

Thanks and Cheers!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    This might help you: It will match the divs that you provided above:

    <div style="[a-zA-Z0-9-:;]+"><a href="[a-z:/.]+">[a-zA-Z ]+</a></div>

    However, it will only match a div > a > text pattern and only divs that have a style attribute and nothing else.

    You should be able to do a find-and-replace using most HTML editors (Dreamweaver and Notepad++ both allow it)

    • 0