Title: "Subscriber  role " user adding itself into admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# "Subscriber role " user adding itself into admin

 *  [freshwaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freshwaters/)
 * (@freshwaters)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/)
 * Hi,
 * I have the following issue:
    Somebody or a hack is adding a subscriber role by
   itself into my admin panel and I don’t know how he does that. He is not subscribing
   for the article updates but as a “subscriber” to the admin panel.
 * Normally, only admins are supposed to be able to perform the task of adding new
   users to admin panel in WP disregarding the role they give to these users.
 * Can someone tell me if there is a security breach in WP that hackers can exploit
   to add new admin users.
    The name of the user is [oliniga@hotmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/oliniga@hotmail.com?output_format=md)
   and don’t have avatar picture. I have changed my admin password already twice.
   but the guy is still coming…
 * Has anyone had this issue before? what can I do to prevent this to happen?
 * Thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/#post-4115720)
 * suggest you start by seeing if you site’s been hacked.
 * Put it’s URL into here
 * [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/)
 *  Thread Starter [freshwaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freshwaters/)
 * (@freshwaters)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/#post-4115838)
 * Hi Robin,
 * The analysis returned a green light meaning I guess that my website has not been
   hacked. but the “dude” keeps on coming back each time I delete his account.
 * I don’t know what to do. should I get in touch with my hosting services?
 * Cheers.
 *  [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/#post-4115841)
 * yes contact your hosting services next for advice
 *  [Caramboo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramboo/)
 * (@caramboo)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/#post-4115842)
 * It looks like you have user registration turned on. Someone, probably a bot, 
   is registering on your site and is granted the default role of subscriber. If
   you don’t want additional users on your site, disable user registration.

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 * [admin-panel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-panel/)
 * [security breach](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/security-breach/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriber-role-user-adding-itself-into-admin/#post-4115842)
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