Title: WordPress Shell Hack
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Shell Hack

 *  [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/)
 * (@laughinglizard)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-shell-hack/)
 * Have you ever wished you could issue simple shell commands through your WordPress
   interface to, say, quickly change the permissions of a file and then change them
   back or be able to see what processes are active and kill a process? Have you
   wanted to have SSH access to your server but your web service does not allow 
   that? Do you have “system” enabled for your PHP? I am not sure if that title 
   does this hack justice but here goes.
    This will allow a WordPress user to execute
   simple shell commands and output them to the browser. It is very incredibly simple,
   very easy to install and very easy to use. To add security, a user has to be 
   authenticated through WordPress before they are allowed to see this page or use
   it. You can read more about it here: [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/08/03/wordpress-shell-hack/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/08/03/wordpress-shell-hack/)

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 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-shell-hack/#post-79268)
 * No, I’ve never wanted to do any of this! LMAO! 😉
 *  [codergurl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codergurl/)
 * (@codergurl)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-shell-hack/#post-79274)
 * Me neither, but since it’s available now. Why not? 😛

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 * Last reply from: [codergurl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codergurl/)
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