Title: Rogue Subscribers
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Rogue Subscribers

 *  Resolved [kkappleby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkappleby/)
 * (@kkappleby)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/)
 * Recently I noticed that I have subscribers when that particular function is not
   checked in my setup.
 * These subscribers are making draft posts (over 200). Most of them are wordpress
   webpages and walmart.com.
 * How can this happen?
 * kk
 * Don’t know what other information you may need to solve this crazy problem.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2404886)
 * If subscribers can create posts on your site, then it’s been hacked:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
   [http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)
 * [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/)
 *  Thread Starter [kkappleby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkappleby/)
 * (@kkappleby)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2404888)
 * Thanks, I’ll check it out.
 * kk
 *  Thread Starter [kkappleby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkappleby/)
 * (@kkappleby)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2404892)
 * Sucuri site check says I’m clean.
 * kk
 *  Thread Starter [kkappleby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkappleby/)
 * (@kkappleby)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2404910)
 * Even though sucuri says my site is clean now I keep getting a subscriber by the
   name of Jane Wells with a website of [http://wordpress.org/news](http://wordpress.org/news)
   along with an unknown subscriber that puts wordpress drafts in my draft post 
   section.
 * Any thoughts?
 * kk
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2405020)
 * There is a Jane Wells at that web site address, so I wouldn’t liker to hazard
   a guess about that one. But, as I said previously, if subscribers can create 
   posts on your site, then it’s been hacked. That sitecheck site cannot detect 
   everything.
 *  Thread Starter [kkappleby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkappleby/)
 * (@kkappleby)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2405027)
 * This is what sucuri.net picked up with a red exclamation point next to it this
   link: WordPress internal path: /home/content/02/7387602/html/wp-content/themes/
   weaver/index.php – anyone know?
 * It does not tell me what it means though. Everything else checks out fine.
 * Another subscriber is Ryan Boren, I’m assuming these must be fake names that 
   the hacker is using to look legit. Don’t know if these people care that their
   names are being used to hack sites.
 * kk

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-subscribers/#post-2405027)
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