Title: Brute Force Attack WP Release Admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Brute Force Attack WP Release Admin

 *  [Elizabeth Crane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eslucky/)
 * (@eslucky)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/)
 * A website of someone I know was locked out of the WP admin area because of the
   Brute Force attack. They are using GoDaddy for hosting. GoDaddy said yesterday
   that they blocked the admin area from logging in. Now they are saying that that
   it is “up to WordPress to release our admin.”
 * They haven’t updated WP in ages and are using an old version. I’m not exactly
   sure which version.
 * Does anyone have any idea what this even means and how to get WP to release admin?
   It doesn’t make any sense to me.
 * Thank you!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667787)
 * There is absolutely nothing we can do in this situation. This is not a WordPress
   issue but a hosting one. If Goddaddy have locked you of of WordPress until it
   is updated, then you’ll have to bite the bullet and update WordPress manually.
   See [Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
   for the full details of how to do this for older versions of WordPress.
 * Once the site is running the latest version of WordPress, you will need to go
   back to Godaddy and ask them to remove the lock,
 *  Thread Starter [Elizabeth Crane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eslucky/)
 * (@eslucky)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667797)
 * Thanks so much for the quick reply. I think they need to contact GoDaddy again.
   They seem a little misinformed. If GD can unlock the admin area the update would
   be so much easier for them from there.
 * Thank you!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667801)
 * No, no, no! Do not even attempt to update WordPress using the 1-click updates
   if the current version is older than 3.3! There is a strong possibility that 
   the database could be irreparably damaged by such a large upgrade – necessitating
   a complete database restore.
 * With older versions of WordPress, you **must** follow the relevant instructions
   in [Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended).
 *  Thread Starter [Elizabeth Crane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eslucky/)
 * (@eslucky)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667826)
 * Wow! Thanks for that info. Very good to know.
 * It looks now to me that they are probably using the most recent WP version. I
   found this in the source code
 * `<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.5.1" />`
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667845)
 * In that case, I’d suggest speaking to Godaddy about the lockout.
 *  Thread Starter [Elizabeth Crane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eslucky/)
 * (@eslucky)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667851)
 * I just spent an hour on the phone with them for him. They don’t really have an
   answer for it. Now I’ve found out that in moving the site recently from one hosting
   account to another there are multiple plugin errors and that it are probably 
   not letting him login along with the Brute Force attack! Yikes!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-wp-release-admin/#post-3667856)
 * Try [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

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 * [brute force](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/brute-force/)
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/)

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