Re:What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
by nisa on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:38AM
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This is effective but unfortunately there is already malware that plants itself inside the database. If you are able to execute code remotely you can also almost always write to /tmp
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Yes, but code being written to data areas (or rather, written/stored in such a way that it can/will be executed later) generally is a bug. Allowing a server to overwrite itself is just a bad idea (hence the NX bit for memory).