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fizk started the forum topic Possible security hole [Solved] in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 7 months ago

I’m running a BuddyPress 1.2.8, WordPress Mu 3.1 site and a bot somehow manages to always create accounts, about 5 per day, even though account registration is disabled in /wp-admin/network/settings.php, and for each of my sites. For example, the last account created had username “ramonlpa” and email “fidankaisageh @gmail.com”, and was not…[Read more]

fizk posted on the forum topic Possible security hole in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 7 months ago

r-a-y,

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks 🙂

fizk posted on the forum topic Possible security hole in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 7 months ago

r-a-y,

Thanks, I’ve disabled registration. Hopefully this stops the bots completely.

fizk posted on the forum topic Possible security hole in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 7 months ago

Pisanojm, I just changed the password of every account in case they’ve guessed the password for one of the accounts.

fizk posted on the forum topic Possible security hole in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 7 months ago

Paul Gibbs,

Yes, I have a separate bbPress install that integrates with WordPress via the Wordprss Integration.

fizk posted on the forum topic Possible security hole in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 7 months ago

Pisanojm,

I don’t have any other admin accounts in my system.

fizk joined the group How-To and Troubleshooting 14 years, 7 months ago