Title: Random blank (draft) post appearing irregularly – What is going on? Last modified: March 13, 2019 --- # Random blank (draft) post appearing irregularly – What is going on? * [agemo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agemo/) * (@agemo) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-blank-posts-appear-irregularly/) * Logging in as Admin user – I sometimes discover > Posts * There are 2-3 untitled and empty posts, as drafts – they appear to have self generated. Initially thought this was a bug but now wonder if it symptomatic of an undetected hack or compromise? * v5.1, (began happening since v4.x) - This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by [agemo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agemo/). Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-blank-posts-appear-irregularly/#post-11309619) * Install and activate [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/) and then at Tools > Sweep in your site’s Dashboard, does it identify these as Auto Drafts? Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Random blank (draft) post appearing irregularly – What is going on?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Blank](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blank/) * [Blog](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blog/) * [compromise](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/compromise/) * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-blank-posts-appear-irregularly/#post-11309619) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics