Title: Don’t remember installing this plugin
Last modified: September 30, 2024

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# Don’t remember installing this plugin

 *  Resolved [snaushads](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snaushads/)
 * (@snaushads)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-remember-installing-this-plugin/)
 * Hi, I had used a plugin called “[https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/header-and-footer-scripts](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/header-and-footer-scripts)”
   sometime back for adding google tags.
 * Now, I see this plugin in the plugin list version 2.2.1, but I also see WPCode
   Lite in the available updates section. Strangely this WPCode Lite does not show
   up in the installed/deactivated plugins list.
 * I assume there is some association here between the plugins ? Please clarify.
   WP Code Lite shows version available for update as 2.2.2. Is this a fork of the
   former plugin ? If yes, how do i get rid of the older one and just stay on the
   one you are maintaining ?

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 *  Plugin Author [Mircea Sandu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gripgrip/)
 * (@gripgrip)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-remember-installing-this-plugin/#post-18046510)
 * Hi [@snaushads](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snaushads/),
 * I’m sorry about the confusion here.
 * There’s no connection between WPCode and the plugin you mentioned “header-and-
   footer-scripts”.
 * WPCode was previously called “Insert Headers and Footers” and when we rebranded
   the plugin to WPCode we expanded the plugin to add a lot of new features like
   full code snippets support with conditional logic, automatic insert locations
   and more.
 * Unfortunately, from what you are describing with the plugin not showing up in
   the list of plugins your site credentials may have been compromised and a malicious
   snippet may have been installed using WPCode to add unwanted scripts on your 
   site.
 * From all the cases we encountered before with this issue, the way the attackers
   get in is through compromised credentials so I recommend that you immediately
   take these steps to resolve this issue:
    – Immediately update passwords for all
   administrator accounts on your website, in all the cases we encountered so far
   the attackers accessed the website with compromised credentials. Please make 
   sure that you do not use the same username/password combination on other websites.–
   Review the list of Administrator users and remove any users that you do not recognise–
   in some versions of this attack the snippet added creates a new administrator
   account. – Use the WPCode Safe Mode to prevent the snippet from being executed
   by adding ?wpcode-safe-mode=1 to your wp-admin URL, for example: https://example.
   com/wp-admin?wpcode-safe-mode=1 – Once in safe mode, go to the Code Snippets 
   menu and delete any snippets you do not recognise. – If you did not use WPCode
   previously, go to wp-admin > Code Snippets > Settings > enable the option to 
   delete all the plugin data, save and then from the Plugins page deactivate WPCode
   and delete the plugin. This will ensure that all the data added through WPCode
   is deleted.
 * If this is the case, I’m sorry you ran into this issue, unfortunately some bad
   actors are using WPCode once they get access to websites to add unwanted snippets
   and we can’t prevent that since the attack happens before WPCode is installed.
 * If you wish to continue using WPCode, yes, the plugin is actively maintained 
   and once your credentials are updated you won’t have any issues moving forward.
 * Let me know if I can provide any additional info.
 *  Thread Starter [snaushads](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snaushads/)
 * (@snaushads)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-remember-installing-this-plugin/#post-18052387)
 * Thank you for the thorough response.

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [snaushads](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snaushads/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-remember-installing-this-plugin/#post-18052387)
 * Status: resolved