Can multisite be enabled without me knowing?
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So I have an install of WordPress single site that has been used for a long time. There were some security intrusions that caused some significant issues some time ago. I can elaborate if necessary.
More recently (maybe a month or two ago?) I noticed that I no longer had Add New under Plugins and couldn’t access the Theme or Plugin Editors in the backend.
Further, WordPress was prompting me to “notify the site administrator” that there was a new version. I don’t have permission to do it.
All of this sounds like a multisite install and that I’m an Admin, not a Super Admin. Is there a way to tell for sure if multisite is installed/enabled? Certainly I’ve checked the wp-config.php file and it is not enabled that way. I just didn’t know if there is something other, more obscure way to enable it that someone interested in being sneaky might do.
When I go to domainname.com/wp-admin/network it says “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Does that appear at that URL even for a single site install?
I found some support topics discussing giving Super Admin privileges via phpMyAdmin and I don’t have a wp_sitemeta table which seems to be where that is stored. Not sure if that table name got changed in later versions of WP (the posts are mostly fairly old or I can’t tell how old) or if that’s evidence that I don’t have multisite installed.
Is there some other definitive way for a regular admin use (not super admin) to tell if multisite is installed?
I don’t know if this is a security issue related to what happened before where they posted lots of pages/content/links to knockoff designer products they were selling on other sites. I could see secretly installing multisite being a nice way to push content out that the site admin wouldn’t seen.
Or I think this could be something completely different and despite not having made any changes, something like a plugin is now causing an issue.
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