Title: dbconnect.php in wordpress root
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# dbconnect.php in wordpress root

 *  [knottulf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knottulf/)
 * (@knottulf)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dbconnectphp-in-wordpress-root/)
 * I discovered that there is a file dbconnect.php in my wordpress root. This obviously
   shouldnt be there, unless it belongs to some plugin, or something. The header
   is like this:
 *     ```
       /** Adminer - Compact database management
       * @link http://www.adminer.org/
       * @author Jakub Vrana, http://www.vrana.cz/
       * @copyright 2007 Jakub Vrana
       * @license http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Apache License, Version 2.0
       * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU General Public License, version 2 (one or other)
       * @version 3.6.3
       */error_reporting(6135);$nc=!ereg('^(unsafe_raw)?$',ini_get("filter.default"));if($nc||ini_get("filter.default_flags")){foreach(array('_GET','_POST','_COOKIE','_SERVER')as$W){$sg=filter_input_array(constant("INPUT$W"),FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW);if($sg)$$W=$sg;}}if(function_exists("mb_internal_encoding"))mb_internal_encoding("8bit");if(isset($_GET["file"])){if($_SERVER["HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE"]){header("HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified");exit;}header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",time()+365*24*60*60)." GMT");header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." GMT");if($_GET["file"]=="favicon.ico"){header("Content-Type: image/x-icon");echo
       ```
   
 * I find a link from the author at [http://www.vrana.cz/](http://www.vrana.cz/)
   to the plugin Inpsyde, who has created the plugin BackWPup, which is a good plugin
   that I frequently use. This is a multisite installation. But still this seems
   more than odd to me that this file should reside in wordpress root?

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 * Last reply from: [knottulf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knottulf/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dbconnectphp-in-wordpress-root/)
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