Title: Unidentified user publishing posts?
Last modified: November 15, 2017

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# Unidentified user publishing posts?

 *  Resolved [csburdick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csburdick/)
 * (@csburdick)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unidentified-user-publishing-posts/)
 * Hi there, in the audit trail viewer I’m getting a user, “Unidentified”, publishing
   and updating posts. For example:
 * [https://i.gyazo.com/e558747b2b3048526bc1df337addc1ae.png](https://i.gyazo.com/e558747b2b3048526bc1df337addc1ae.png)
 * I can’t find these posts in my Posts tab, so this must be something else.
 * What is this, why are they able to log in, and how can I find what’s actually
   being changed here?
 * I am occasionally finding nefarious links in my posts – perhaps that’s what this
   is?
 * Thank you,
    Chris
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Funidentified-user-publishing-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unidentified-user-publishing-posts/#post-9686876)
 * These could also be custom post types from another plugin. I don’t honestly know.
 * If you’re finding nefarious links, you need to really dig into your site and 
   webhosting to find out what’s possibly in there doing this.
 *  Thread Starter [csburdick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csburdick/)
 * (@csburdick)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unidentified-user-publishing-posts/#post-9686923)
 * Ok I wasn’t sure if it was obvious to you what it might be. Since it was under
   Posts I thought it was directly related to posts.
 * Thank you for your help Paul.

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 * Last reply from: [csburdick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csburdick/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unidentified-user-publishing-posts/#post-9686923)
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