Database search returned odd urls – https://domain.org/58fb24a450fd9129b950b8a

  • traveler

    (@visualeight)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    Recently we had to rebrand something within our organization, so I needed to find all the pages/posts containing a specific string of text. I did a database search for published pages/posts containing this specific string of text and got (4) instances with weird URLs that are like: https://domain.org/58fb24a450fd9129b950b8a ; our URL structure is so that the page/post title immediately follows the site domain. In every case when you use these (4) URLs you get our 404 not found page.

    Any idea what these are and why they may show up in a db search for a string? Any reason to find them and remove them entirely?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    1 year, 5 months ago

    Looks like a hexdecimal hash of some sort. There’s no way to back out what it is a hash of. It may have been placed there by a theme or plugin you no longer use, possibly something that was trialed but never really used. Or unlikely but possible, it was placed there by a hacker for some reason that’s unknown to us.

    If these URLs result in 404 responses, it’s very likely safe to remove them from the DB. Even so, it’d be a good idea to make a DB backup before removal.

    Or you could ignore them and leave them in place. They serve no purpose but don’t take up that much space. But in the off chance it is some sort of hacker thing, you would want to remove it, along with changing all privileged passwords. Also alter the salts in wp-config.php to invalidate any unexpired auth cookies that may be out there. Additional delousing steps might be warranted if this is indeed a hacker thing. I don’t think it is, but cannot definitely rule it out either.

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