Uninstall

  • A mystery person installed Secure WP on our site. I can’t access it and so cannot add plugins or use the html editor or uninstall it. What is the best way to uninstall it? I could just delete it from the folders but I’m not sure what, if any, alterations it has made to my core WP files. Suggestions?

    Thank you,
    Will

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  • What is “Secure WP”? Any idea where it came from? Since you can’t install plugins you could try using WP-CLI to verify the core WP files:
    https://wp-cli.org/commands/core/verify-checksums/

    Thread Starter willbell

    (@willbell)

    Acunetix Secure WordPress

    I am finding more stuff that is blocked, like editing certain features of the menu. I would like to undo this plug-in as simple as possible. I don’t want to go through the whole copy/delete/reinstall/update process.

    Thanks,
    Will

    Thread Starter willbell

    (@willbell)

    P.S. I have access to all files, so if you could tell me where the login info is stored I could just login and uninstall that way.

    You can use your hosts cPanel file manager or FTP to access your site files. Go to the /wp-content/plugins folder and rename the folder for that plugin. That will deactivate it and (hopefully) allow you to log in to your site admin.

    Thread Starter willbell

    (@willbell)

    Thanks for the reply, sorry I’m acknowledging it so late. The problem is more subtle than that. I can access my admin, but certain functions are not available. Secure WP turns them off. The reasons I can’t just delete the Secure WP plug-in is that I think it has rewritten part of the core code, so I still would not have those functions after deleting the plug-in. It’s screwy.

    Will

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