Title: [Plugin: Admin username changer] Security issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Admin username changer] Security issue

 *  Resolved [Julio Potier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliobox/)
 * (@juliobox)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/)
 * Hello
 * Your plugin makes life easy for hackers because you do not use security nonce
   tokens.
    Also, the plugin sends you an email each time the plugin option page
   is visited, without user agreement, this is spam and forbidden.
 * Read the codex to learn how to add nonces to your form/ajax.
    Btw, all websites
   do not starts with ‘[http://www.&#8217](http://www.&#8217);, check “parse_url()”
   php function. Also, check $wpdb->update() function. Last, what is JS is not activated,
   like on Screen Readers for blind people ?
 * See you !
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-username-changer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-username-changer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [yoshitech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emcode/)
 * (@emcode)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954702)
 * Thank you for your suggestions Julio.
 * Email sending was in the plugin for maybe 5 minutes and i removed it immediately
   and sent an email to the webmaster of the url that was sent to me – to uninstall
   it and re install the new clean one.
 * I’ll make the changes you suggested in the next release.
    Greets
 *  Thread Starter [Julio Potier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliobox/)
 * (@juliobox)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954703)
 * Thank you emcode, i’ll be here 😉
 *  Plugin Author [yoshitech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emcode/)
 * (@emcode)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954729)
 * The new version is in the tags folder, 1.1 🙂
 * Check it out and let me know what you think, and then i’ll release it.
 * Greets!
 *  Thread Starter [Julio Potier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliobox/)
 * (@juliobox)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954736)
 * Great news!
    But the actual trunk version is 1.0 Change Stable tag: 1.1 to Stable
   tag: trunk in readme.txt file
 *  Plugin Author [yoshitech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emcode/)
 * (@emcode)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954737)
 * DOne 🙂
 *  [David100351](https://wordpress.org/support/users/david100351/)
 * (@david100351)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954817)
 * Is it possible to install and activate, change the username, and then uninstall
   and delete for security?
 * thanks
 *  Thread Starter [Julio Potier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliobox/)
 * (@juliobox)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954818)
 * Yes.
 *  [akalsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akalsha/)
 * (@akalsha)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954826)
 * Hello,
 * What will happen to my posts if I change the admin user name? It’s currently 
   the only user, and I have hundreds of posts. Will they be deleted?
    🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Julio Potier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliobox/)
 * (@juliobox)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954827)
 * Non, the username is not linked to posts, the ID is.
 *  [akalsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akalsha/)
 * (@akalsha)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-admin-username-changer-security-issue/#post-2954828)
 * Thank you. 🙂

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