http://lookforitoverhere.com/228/hidden-administrator-user/ IT related tutorials,tips, and generally my life on the net. Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://lookforitoverhere.com/228/hidden-administrator-user/comment-page-1/#comment-7199 jenny Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:40:38 +0000 http://lookforitoverhere.com/?p=228#comment-7199 Our site was hacked and there was a hidden Admin user Tried what you suggested but had no joy -eventually went into Mysql database and changed my "admin" ID from ID=2 to ID=1 and that resulted in having a hiddem subscriber instead of a hidden admin SO then I went back to Mysql DB and deleted the "subscriber" - did a search in cpanel/file manager and found that they had added .htaccess files everywhere - in wp-includes folders and plugins folders hope this helps someone and saves them the four hours I spent !! Our site was hacked and there was a hidden Admin user Tried what you suggested but had no joy
-eventually went into Mysql database and changed my “admin” ID from ID=2 to ID=1 and that resulted in having a hiddem subscriber instead of a hidden admin
SO then I went back to Mysql DB and deleted the “subscriber”
- did a search in cpanel/file manager and found that they had added .htaccess files everywhere – in wp-includes folders and plugins folders
hope this helps someone and saves them the four hours I spent !!

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