Dear all -

As most of you will know, Drupal has recently announced a critical 
vulnerability and automated MySQL injection attacks in the wild have 
compromised servers(1). Our sysadmins are wiping affected machines, in order to 
reinstall data from pre Oct. 15 backups. We users need to figure out how to 
handle the data loss from Oct. 15 to current.

If I understand the Drupal advisory correctly, backdoors could have been 
installed in the database. I don't know nearly enough about this, but I suspect 
this could mean that a backdoor could reappear on the new machine if I were to 
dump my current Wiki tables from the old machine and reinstall them on the new 
machine. Is this correct? And if so, what would the best strategy be for 
recovery? I hope this can be done more efficiently than copy/pasting Wikitext.

Any insight much appreciated.
Cheers,
Boris



(1) https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003
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