Odd "Hacking Attempt" message

  • Site is: https://charlottesouthrotary.com/

    My site is displaying a “hacking attempt” message. WordPress is installed in a subdirectory (/wp) and is published to the root directory. I can view the entire site in the subdirectory – https://charlottesouthrotary.com/wp – work in the control panel, etc. But any pages on the root directory are displaying the “hacking attempt” message.

    I have attempted republishing WP to different directories – I can publish to a new subdirectory with no issues, but I cannot publish to the root directory at all. I’ve redone the index.php and .htaccess files. Everything else seems fine – it’s just this hacking message. I’ve viewed the source of the hacking message page and there’s nothing there. None of the files appear to be recently changed.

    The site is hosted by GoDaddy (not my choice) and they were wholly unhelpful.

    Any suggestions?

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  • There’s nothing apparently wrong with your WordPress site. What exactly is the message you are seeing?

    Thread Starter melissaland

    (@melissaland)

    The exact message is “Hacking attempt”. I have checked it with multiple browsers on multiple computers – all are generating the same message.

    Again, I am only seeing the message when I go to the root page – https://charlottesouthrotary.com/

    I can see the site from the subdirectory with no issues (but WordPress is set to publish to the root directory)

    Thread Starter melissaland

    (@melissaland)

    I’ve republished the site to the subdirectory and forwarded the domain to the subdirectory because I need to get this group’s site back up and that was the fastest way to do it.

    But if anyone has any thoughts, please send them along!

    Hacking attempt

    That message is not coming from WordPress core. Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

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