Hello Team,
I’m having a strange issue on my website.
If I am the author of an article, then everything is fine no issue (me as admin).
I assign the article to another author: when I click on the article, I see a black page written error 404 .. a friend who tried sees a casino page …
I experiment this issue only since 2 days.. never seen this before.
Any idea on what’s the issue?
Try to click here to see: https://www.captainforest.com/white-saviorism-in-international-development-the-colonial-roots-of-modern-aid/
Some see the page, I don’t see the page, other see a casino page …
Don’t know if it depends on the geographical location of whoever clicks.
Thanks.
Lamiaa
Hi,
I clicked on the link and I see the post -> https://prnt.sc/urWTz4CH2COD I checked several other posts, from various authors, they seem fine so far.
Seeing something other than the actual post is very unusual, even suspicious if it’s a casino page. If there are redirects to other websites, then this kind of behavior is usually related to malware.
If I check in the page source, I see a suspicious script right before the closing body tag -> https://prnt.sc/xxrhq_w8gWjz And If I test the site with an online malware scanner which is very reliable, it says that there is malware on the site -> https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/www.captainforest.com/whites-saviorism-in-international-development-the-colonial-roots-of-modern-aid/
My suggestion is to immediately install the Wordfence plugin -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/ It only requires a free license in order to use it. Then use the scan option from it -> https://www.wordfence.com/help/scan/ It should find any suspicious code or files. Please try it as soon as possible.
Thank you!
Hi Team,
I have cleaned the website from the malware and normally there should be none. Still I still see the name of the author not in the author box but on the article space .. Do we know why?
Thanks.
Lamiaa
That’s great news.
The author box is this one in the sidebar -> https://prnt.sc/POyP8l685K_d Are you referring to the position of the author box? Everything can be moved if you edit the post template with the composer.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, could you please explain the issue more?
Thank you Simon. I have just sent a screenshot by email to show you what I see:
The text (name of the author) shows on the title of the article (meaning texts both are one under the other).
As I have cleaned the website from the malware and still have this issue, I’m wondering why I see this article page like this.
What’s strange is that it only happens when I select Emma (a newly added author) as an author. If I select other authors, I don’t have this issue. I have already deleted Emma from the user database and we created again her profile, but the issue is still here.
