WordPress Admin Site Corruption on 2.9.2
Normally, I assume that if I am running the most current version of a product, my chances of getting hacked are pretty low. I don't know what happened, but a few days ago, I noticed that the admin side of my site was rendering really funny, regardless of the computer or browser I was using. I noticed that the other sites I run on the same shared host (hostgator) had the same issue. I did the following steps in order until I found one that fixed it:
- Changes theme back to default
- Deactivated all the plugins (I really only use two, so this was not a big deal)
- Renamed the plugin directory to plugin.old via FTP
- Replaced the http.php file in wp-includes with a fresh copy from a newly downloaded zip file
- Replaced entire wp-includes directory with new copy
The last thing fixed it. Unfortunately, in my haste, I did not get a close look at the files to see if they had been modified. If I was in a situation where I only updated my site from one IP, I would definitely be modifying my .htaccess file to lock this down.
Below is a screencap of what the site looked like:
Everything worked fine, but it looked way off.