WordPress redirect bypasses plugin

  • Resolved mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    I really feel like a guinea pig in all this. I found another hack to your plugin.

    A new hack I found is when someone types a URL as follows:

    “http://(sitename.com)/WordPress/wp-admin/edit-comments.php”,

    they are redirected to the login page showing the renamed login. I tried a few others, some worked the same way (redirected to the login), others failed.

    I noticed that the recent hack attempt to my site because my security sends a warning email to me for every login page access. This email showed a blank referral. Normally, the referral would show the URL the person used to access the login page, but it was blank.

    I had no idea how a hacker was accessing the login page, bypassing your plugin and giving a blank referral.

    Then today, it so happened that I was replying to a visitor to my site, a comment he made and my security plugin sent me an email when I accessed comment page via my dashboard, yet at that time, I was not redirected. But, when I used the URL directly into my browser, WordPress redirected me to my login. Viola, I got the warning email and the referral was blank.

    With some research, I found that WordPress designed the blog software to redirect incomplete URL’s and other non-related URL’s. I tried some mods to php files to stop the redirect and all failed to stop the redirect to the login page.

    Any suggestions?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/

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  • Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Does anyone have an answer to this issue?

    I am still getting hackers to my login page with this problem.

    Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Here again is the problem.

    When a hacker types in the URL like this:
    “http://(sitename.com)/WordPress/wp-admin/edit-comments.php”,

    WordPress redirects him to my login page and the URL redirect looks like this:
    “http://(sitename.com)/(my renamed login name)/?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F(sitename.com)%2FWordPress%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit-comments.php&reauth=1”

    It appears to resolve this, maybe change the redirect URL to somewhere else or change the “reauth=1” to another authorization code number so the hacker does not get the login page?

    Anyone have ideas?
    (PS I am not fully versed in PHP so this is why I am asking here)

    Plugin Author Ella

    (@ellatrix)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    I tried several websites and I can’t reproduce this. What other plugins do you have installed? Which other setting do you think might be causing this? Any special comment settings or website configuration?

    Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Ok, your right. I should have thought of that before posting.

    The plugin that conflicts with your “rename login” is:

    “WPtouch Mobile Plugin”

    Sad, because that plugin allows people to view my blog from a cell phone.

    Oh well, I will let them know and in the mean time find something else to use.

    Now that I deactivated the “WPtouch Mobile Plugin” I get an error page that says I have to be logged into admin to access that php file. That is good. No more redirects to my login page.

    Of course, I will keep you up to date on new hack attempts, after all I am the official guinea pig now.

    🙂

    Mark

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Ella

    (@ellatrix)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Well, I appreciate your help with detecting these things. Just address the issue on their forum, that’s weird behaviour for a mobile plugin.

    Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Welcome, that is what a guinea pig is for 🙂

    I just finished posting in their help forum for that plugin.

    Thanks
    Mark

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