Edit post, save and get HTTP ERROR 413 only on that post!

  • Some “hackers” managed to insert links to porn Web sites in one of my posts. So I deleted the links but then when I updated the post, I got a HTTP ERROR 413 notification. The post is still in my list of posts and all the content is there, but I can’t access the post anymore. Help!

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  • Hi Davey,

    One of the quick solutions would be to access your post content via some DB Manager (e.g. PhpMyAdmin) and delete post content manually directly in DB. That would surely solve this particular problem.

    Is this an option for you?

    Thread Starter DaveyWavey

    (@jewlicious)

    Sure. In the future if this ever happens again. I can access the content in PhpMyAdmin right now – but what happened? What am I looking for to get rid of that 413 error? Getting rid of the links is easy… But did the hackers inject some nasty code into my post to make it go 413 once any change is made to the post?

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by DaveyWavey.

    Hi Davey,

    Without knowing more details this is hard to tell, what exactly happened. The best I can advise without knowing more details would be you compare you current install against files in repository. You could perhaps try to use plugin such as Wordfence, which would help you to identify suspicious files.

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