user can register as hidden admin

  • Hi, I usually get an email when a new user register to my wordrepss.
    Since I noticed it has a strange email, I then search in throught the users and notice it had admin rights.
    Even in the top bar it shows that I am the only one that is an administrator.
    Is that any fix or tricks to show hidden admin?

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • same problem here…all my websites are getting admin users…

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    Thread Starter bostongeorge86

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    Thank you, will check that out.
    Just mentioning, (in case somebody else notice the same), the “New User Default Role”, has apparently changed to administrator, I am sure it was subscriber.
    I have tried to register another email of mine, but it shows is registered as “customer”. So not sure where the problem is.
    Thank you Steven I will definetly follow what you reccomended and will go throught FTP/code and database to see if I notice something else.

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