By orjantorang on

I have just found a site that in an orderly manner, showing different themes for Drupal.
I downloaded a number of themes and discovered that many of them contained hidden links to undesirable sites in page.tpl.php.
And it's not to the author.

The site is:
www (dot) drupalthemes (dot) biz

Among other themes, I found Acqui Marina among the themes, and it has this hidden link.

Beware!
/Örjan

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Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

This report is confirmed - the website drupalthemes.biz is inserting hidden links into Drupal themes they have ripped off from Drupal.org; such as:

found in Acquia Marina page.tpl.php
<div style="position: absolute; left: -1561px; top: -2724px;">
<a href="http://www.cialisgenerico.info">cialis generico</a></div>

found in Forest Floor Drupal 7 page.tpl.php
<div style="position: absolute; left: -1561px; top: -2724px;">
<a href="http://www.zencarttemplates.net">zen cart templates</a></div>

I would advise that you do not download themes from this site and only download from Drupal.org or reputable, well known and trusted sites.

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chathura123’s picture

chathura123 commented

Just starting to develop my first web site in drupal. I was not aware of this until now and thank you for the information.
Cheers
Chathura

stephthegeek’s picture

stephthegeek commented

Yup, last I saw they were using obfuscated code in a templates.php file to insert hidden links as well. Bad bad bad!