Title: Nested wp-content folder?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Nested wp-content folder?

 *  [eswrite-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eswrite-wp/)
 * (@eswrite-wp)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-wp-content-folder/)
 * In the process of cleaning up a base64 hack on my WP install, I noticed the wp-
   content folder contains a sub-folder called wp-content. It appears to be pretty
   barebones, with only a plugins folder that contains askimet, and a themes sub-
   folder that contains classic and default themes. None of the contents appear 
   to be malicious, but I removed them nonetheless, with no adverse effects. Are
   these left-overs from previous versions of WP? I don’t see a wp-content sub-folder
   inside the wp-content folder in the 3.3.1 WP install.

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 *  Thread Starter [eswrite-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eswrite-wp/)
 * (@eswrite-wp)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-wp-content-folder/#post-2586211)
 * BTW, I also found a nested wp-includes folder inside the — you guessed it — wp-
   includes folder. I removed this folder (tons of files I didn’t have time to review)
   and my site is functioning properly.
 *  Thread Starter [eswrite-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eswrite-wp/)
 * (@eswrite-wp)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-wp-content-folder/#post-2586213)
 * … and a wp-admin folder inside the wp-admin folder.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-wp-content-folder/#post-2586226)
 * There should be no nested folders.
 *  Thread Starter [eswrite-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eswrite-wp/)
 * (@eswrite-wp)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-wp-content-folder/#post-2586287)
 * > There should be no nested folders.
 * Thanks, they’re gone now. They looked pretty clean/benign, though I didn’t go
   down into every sub-folder. Timestamps dated back to 2008, but I’m beginning 
   to think that means nothing. Is this nesting another hacker’s trick?

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-wp-content-folder/#post-2586287)
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