Plugins Have Disappeared!

  • Resolved growmoney

    (@growmoney)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Can anyone help? I was working on the wordpress blog last night and I did not do anything to the site, the plugins just all deactivated themselves then disappeared. I got a message about the plugins being deactivated because of the header??????
    When I try to reinstall the same plugins, it says that the file already exists..it’s as though the plugins are still present but not visible and not usable?

    Can anyone give me an easy fix? Is this normal? Plugins just deactivate themselves then disappear?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 5 months ago

    That means the plugins have been compromised, typically via a code injection hack.

    You’ll need to access the server via SFTP or FTP, navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and manually delete all of them.

    Once you have deleted the plugins, carefully follow this guide. When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

    Thread Starter growmoney

    (@growmoney)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi James,

    Since no responded right away to my request for assistance, I searched online and found that I am the victim of some kind of “Hack”.

    It seems that “Online” Hackers derive pleasure and power from creating chaos that that require huge amounts of additional work to fix…quite frankly I am not surprised by this “Additional Attack”….

    Thanks for taking the time to respond…be blessed

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 5 months ago

    You’re welcome!

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