Title: .sem file in wp-admin folder
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# .sem file in wp-admin folder

 *  Resolved [adopted3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adopted3/)
 * (@adopted3)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sem-file-in-wp-admin-folder/)
 * Hello,
 * I couldn’t find anything about this…
 * This file appeared in three of my websites:
    wp-admin/session_mm_cgi-fcgi1007.
   sem
 * The file is gone now.
 * Just curious what that is? A normal temporary file for a session?
 * I mostly want to know whether it’s a possible security threat.
 * Thanks,
    Paul

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sem-file-in-wp-admin-folder/#post-5879921)
 * My guess would be that php/cgi/fastcgi is creating temporary files. Why they 
   are (or if they should be) appearing in /wp-admin, I can’t say. Contact your 
   hosts support group and let them know you are concerned. Maybe it’s just a quick
   configuration issue.
 *  Thread Starter [adopted3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adopted3/)
 * (@adopted3)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sem-file-in-wp-admin-folder/#post-5880163)
 * Thanks for your reply ClaytonJames,
 * Yeah, with words like “session” and “sem[aphore]” in the files, and the temporary
   nature of them, I’m not going to worry about them.
 * Regards

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 * [sem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sem/)
 * [session](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/session/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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