reporting a hack (unauthorized user and posts)

  • Resolved wpbless

    (@wpbless)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Appears someone got past Akismet. Daily posts (basically ads) have been appearing on one of my blogs since March 21. Not related to the blog.

    I got into WordPress to do some fixing and investigating, but it started spinning and spinning and doesn’t load any pages.

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  • Thread Starter wpbless

    (@wpbless)

    New User Default was set to Author.

    Set it to Subscriber. Adjust that user’s role back to Subscriber (or delete him) and delete his posts. Then monitor the site carefully for a while.

    Thread Starter wpbless

    (@wpbless)

    Yes, the settings I was looking for are under “Discussion” and what you can set is notifications of new COMMENTS (not posts, of course, since that would be you or your authorized users).
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    Thread Starter wpbless

    (@wpbless)

    Thanks. I did set it to Subscriber.

    I think I should try to communicate with him about being such a chump, too.

    Thread Starter wpbless

    (@wpbless)

    Forgot one very important detail, which is that I’m using Register Plus (wonderful plugin) and it allows you to verify users before their registration is complete. I thought that was a WP setting, and remembered it’s Register Plus. Problem solved.

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