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Unknown users with admin rights!? (4 posts)

  1. tomzemand
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    A friend of mine is having trouble with his wordpress site ( http://www.spraytan-odense.dk ).
    At first, he had malware on the site and there was a suspicious line of javascript code. I installed several security plugins and checked every file, the malware was gone and the site was clean!

    Now we're facing a new problem. This has happened twice. Unknown users have been created (even tho registration is not available - we turned that off in settings!) with admin rights.

    I could imagine if the site was making money or had tons of visitors everyday, that being a target for hackers would be normal. But we're talking about a standard wordpress site for a spraytan company. They're registrering with emails such as <something>@spraytan-odense.dk.

    I've searched the forum but couldnt find anything, if I have overlooked something, please link me. If you have any idea to a solution or know whats causing this, please help.

  2. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 3 months ago #

  3. andrey_simonov
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    What plug-ins did you install on your site?

  4. YouON
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    I've heard about an issue/vulnerability with the use of query_posts instead WP_Query. Does your theme use query_posts?

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