Broken website after plugin updates

If i go in to the WordPress management in the Softaculous page and click on login for the page it just downloads this file, sapp-wp-signon (6).php. Inside this is:

<?php
@unlink(__FILE__);

// Validate if the request is from Softaculous
if($_REQUEST['pass'] != 'uepb16aj7mvm24bx5indmvhybs1ouqq4'){
	die("Unauthorized Access");
}

// Dummy plugin dir so that no plugins are loaded as they conflict with our login process
define('WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR', '/home/landeau/pelicansnestkalbarri.com.au/uepb16aj7mvm24bx5indmvhybs1ouqq4');
define('WP_PLUGIN_DIR', '/home/landeau/pelicansnestkalbarri.com.au/uepb16aj7mvm24bx5indmvhybs1ouqq4');
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/home/landeau/pelicansnestkalbarri.com.au/uepb16aj7mvm24bx5indmvhybs1ouqq4');
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

// Some themes check the current login script name
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/wp-login.php';

require('wp-blog-header.php');
require('wp-includes/pluggable.php');

// If the user is already logged in simply redirect to admin page
if(!is_user_logged_in()){
	
	$signon_user = '';

	//Backword compatibility ($__setting['signon_username'] won't be there in previous versions <= 5.2.3)
	if(!empty($signon_user) && !preg_match('/^\[\[(.*?)\]\]$/is', $signon_user)){
		$user = get_user_by('login', $signon_user);
	}else{
		$user_info = get_userdata(1);
		
		// Try to find an admin if we do not have any admin with ID => 1
		if(empty($user_info) || empty($user_info->user_login)){
			$admin_id = get_users(array('role__in' => array('administrator'), 'number' => 1, 'fields' => array('ID')));
			$user_info = get_userdata($admin_id[0]->ID);
		}
		
		$username = $user_info->user_login;
		$user = get_user_by('login', $username);
	}
	
	// Create the session
	if(!is_wp_error($user)){
		wp_clear_auth_cookie();
		wp_set_current_user($user->ID);
		wp_set_auth_cookie($user->ID);
		
		// Create a session for wp-simple-firewall plugin
		if(file_exists(dirname(__FILE__).'/wp-content/plugins/wp-simple-firewall')){
			
			try{
				
				global $wpdb;
				
				$wpsf_session_id = md5(uniqid('icwp-wpsf'));
				
				$wpdb->insert($wpdb->prefix."icwp_wpsf_sessions", array(
				   "session_id" => $wpsf_session_id,
				   "wp_username" => $user->user_login,
				   "ip" => $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
				   "browser" => md5($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']),
				   "last_activity_uri" => "/wp-login.php",
				   "logged_in_at" => time(),
				   "last_activity_at" => time(),
				   "login_intent_expires_at" => 0,
				   "secadmin_at" => 0,
				   "created_at" => time(),
				   "deleted_at" => 0,
				));
				
				setcookie("wp-icwp-wpsf", $wpsf_session_id, time()+ DAY_IN_SECONDS * 30);
				
			} catch(Exception $e){
				
			}
		}
	}
}

// Redirect to admin page
$redirect_to = admin_url();
wp_safe_redirect( $redirect_to );

exit();

I went into my cPanel files and changed the name of the plugins folder to plugins-old but still nothing, does it take time to go through?

I also made the info.php file with the <?php phpinfo(); ?> inside but I still don’t understand any of this as I used to working with html files.

Thanks for the replies so far.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

When I choose view of that file in my cPanel it comes up on this link https://uscentral49.myserverhosts.com:2083/cpsess3149778471/frontend/paper_lantern/filemanager/showfile.html?file=info.php&fileop=&dir=%2Fhome%2Flandeau%2Fpelicansnestkalbarri.com.au&dirop=&charset=&file_charset=utf-8&baseurl=&basedir=

I have renamed the plugins folder back so I could get in to manage the plugins in the dashboard and I have deactivated the plugins Google XML Sitemaps and Sitemap by BestWebSoft because they said it was the “type E_ERROR was caused in line 531 of the file /home/landeau/pelicansnestkalbarri.com.au/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-plugin/google-sitemap-plugin.php”. The problem is that the website still does not show and I still can’t login to the dashboard, I can only see the manage plugins part in the first page. I have now discovered that even though I deactivated them there, they keep coming back on and if I try to delete them it won’t let me. Each time I go to the webpage itself it still just downloads a php file that reads

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', true );

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require __DIR__ . '/wp-blog-header.php';

What I would like to know is does it take long to work again if I get it right or is there a 24 hour delay?

I have gone back and tried changing the php54 but then when I go check the plugins have been reactivated on their own. Not sure how I can fix this if they keep coming back on and won’t let me delete them?

I don;t want to have to build a html page and just wipe the WordPress website out all together but it;s looking more and more like I will have to do that and the business sale has gone through today and they still haven’t told them about the missing website!

Any other ideas? is there some way I can get help from somewhere? A number or email address I can contact to get this site back up?

@humayonk is there any way you can help me with this?