"Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance" message

  • Resolved CrissyUK

    (@crissyuk)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Good morning,

    I logged in to my site at hsocuk.com and clicked on the update link to update a plugin and all I am getting now is a white page saying

    “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

    It became available again after a while and although, eventually, the plugin updated I am now getting this message in admin:

    “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now.”

    If I click on “update again now” nothing happens.

    Please does anyone have any idea of what might be happening?

    The site appears to have been hacked, btw. When I run site:hsocuk.com in Google I get all sorts of pages that I never knew were there but were created in WP (they are not listed under pages).

    Many thanks,
    Cristina

    P.S.
    I read the codex section on hacked site but couldn’t find any instructions specific to this problem.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Remain calm and carefully follow this guide. When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

    Thread Starter CrissyUK

    (@crissyuk)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for getting back to me.

    In this case the culprit was the plugin “SEO Adviser” that I installed some time ago. I never activated it so I decided to remove it to see if it was the backdoor and… bingo! Suddenly hundreds of spam pages that only a Google site search picked up on became visible in the pages menu and I was able to remove them.

    What’s worrying is the sophistication of the hack as neither the free versions of Wordfence nor Sucuri picked up on the script or the spam pages. 🙁

    Now here’s to hoping that they will leave me alone for a while. Ironically, when I only had a few html pages on this website I didn’t have these issues. Maybe it’s time to go back to basics… 😉

    Thanks again,
    Cristina

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 2 months ago

    You’re welcome!

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