Title: Unlock your backend (hack)
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Unlock your backend (hack)

 *  [Alexey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvascheta/)
 * (@dvascheta)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unlock-your-backend-hack/)
 * Hello!
 * I’ve just invented a hack. May be it is not new, but also may help one.
 * So if you turned on admin area slug and can’t access login screen, you should
   find and duplicate wp-login.php to smth, for example wp-login2.php and just open
   yoursite.com/wp-login2.php
 * This worked for me. Plugin doesn’t block or redirect from renamed file.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unlock-your-backend-hack/#post-7530792)
 * [@dvascheta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvascheta/)
 * Thank you for sharing that workaround.
 * However renaming or copying to wp-login2.php is not a very good idea.
    It may
   help you getting back into the Dashboard but it may also help attackers find 
   access to your Dashboard login page. Attackers are constantly scanning for copies
   of files and wp-login2.php is probably one of the first ones they will try.
 * If you do this do it temporarily and rename or copy to a random file name like
   1j5hgd96to2.php
 * I prefer to temporarily rename the better-wp-security folder which will auto 
   deactivate the plugin. A much safer approach.
 * Well actually I prefer to solve the root cause of the problem 😉
 * dwinden
 *  Thread Starter [Alexey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvascheta/)
 * (@dvascheta)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unlock-your-backend-hack/#post-7530796)
 * dwinden, of course only like temporary solution only to get in. Sory, didn’t 
   mention it in the post.

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 * Last reply from: [Alexey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvascheta/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unlock-your-backend-hack/#post-7530796)
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