sunsetsushi
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Jan Dembowski,
I spoke with my lawyer regarding my client’s privacy and this does, in fact, classify as an “extreme issue”.
If this thread is not removed from the wordpress.org forums my lawyer will be contacting wordpress.org directly.
I tagged this post “modlook”.
Moderators, would you please delete this support forum thread or delete all references to https://archangelsbless because I want the users on this website I manage to know their data is secure and do not want my client’s links listed on the search engines.
Thank you!
- This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by sunsetsushi.
FYI for anyone concerned…
Another way to see if your membership site is compromised, just do a search with your “domain name” and then type in “user-data” in a google search. You’ll see if your site comes up for user-data.xlsx files.
Relieved to know what caused it and glad it’s not this plugin.
Yes, me too. This plugin is secure thank goodness!
At least I know what caused it and what to look for now.
Glad to be of assistance to all to watch out of an export plugin that generates a download file called, “user data”.
If this happens, check your uploads folder inside your hosting file manager files to be sure there isn’t a file called “user-data.xlsx” for each month and delete it along with that plugin.
Happy to find that Simple Membership Plugin is secure and the developers cared enough to research if it was their plugin or not.
Thank you Developers and MBRsolutions!
by Soflyy
The plugin could have been called…
WP All Export
RJaggers,
I figured out it might have been a plugin I was using a while back but I don’t know the name of it.
It was a free plugin I downloaded after doing a search for “export users” in the plugin panel of wordpress.
How you can tell if you come across this plugin is you export users and the file is called, “User Data” in your download folder.
Even though I did this weekly as a backup type thing, it must have monthly just generated one file in my hosting account called user-data.xsl.
Why didn’t it generate a user-data.xsl file each time I did a download? Maybe it overwrote the original version it created that month… not sure?
I ended up uninstalling this plugin because it just didn’t work anymore or perhaps they wanted you to buy a pro version to do the export, I can’t remember.
The export plugin I’m using now does not create an xsl file in my hosting account.
Strange, but glad to know what this issue was exactly.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by sunsetsushi.
Here’s where the files were before I deleted them from my hosting account.
Would you please delete all the links I’ve posted in this thread that reference my website. I really don’t want my website links showing up on the search engines for this.
I also have not uploaded user data to my website or hosting file manager so I don’t know how the user-data.xlsx is being generated each month under uploads.
Thank you!
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/public_html/archangelsbless.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/users-data.xlsxI understand what you are saying, however it still shouldn’t be automatically showing on google, the user data.
That is a concern for others using this plugin. I spoke to my hosting provider and they said it is how the plugin is designed with how it stores files.
There should be a way to prevent this from happening to your users on your end with regard to user data.
Yes, here’s the screenshot
https://archangelsbless.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Z-user-data-1.png
I deleted the user data files, but they were located under uploads in my hosting file manager under each year and month.
The issue is with how simple membership plugin programs uploaded user data. Under properties the box “world” is checked when it shouldn’t be checked at all if data is uploaded to simple membership.
Please be sure to fix this for all of your members to ensure the data of the users are not compromised through be available on google search.
Website owner’s users data is otherwised compromised if this is not corrected with your programmers.
I’m uninstalling the plugin and finding a more secure option.
Yes, I’m the designer. I’m getting help elsewhere now, I know you are correct.
Thank you!
Is there some kind of <div align> or position: relative; I can do before the form code? to get wordpress to not create whitespace before the form after the text I type before the form?
It really is a wordpress issue, not a theme issue. The coding in wordpress changes the form code if I try to delete any white space in the WYSIWIG.
WordPress creating whitespace has nothing to the with the theme though, it does this no matter what theme I use everytime I try to insert a 1shoppingcart form and put heading above it.
Please help.
