wp-admin/admin-ajax.php appearing on audit log

  • Resolved iwantthatroom

    (@iwantthatroom)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    I am having some issues with my wordpress website.

    My workplace has accused me of developing my website at work using their servers.. this is not true and have never logged on to the backend of my website at work.

    They have a usage audit report that comes up with multiple logs of the following –
    ” https://www.iwantthatroom.com.au/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php ”

    I can not explain this as I have only looked at my site at work but not logged into it.

    why this would be happening on the front end and how does this happen when I’ve never logged in to the backend from there?

    Thanks!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Jacob Peattie

    (@jakept)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Rest assured it is perfectly normal for the front-end of WordPress sites to send requests to the admin-ajax.php file. Despite the name and location it was the standard way to use AJAX in WordPress until the recent introduction of the REST API. You can see the proof of this in the Codex article on using AJAX: https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/AJAX_in_Plugins

    In your example I can see that when I visit the homepage several requests are sent by the browser to admin-ajax.php despite me not being logged in. This appears to be being done by the Share Buttons feature and is being used to update the share count without reloading the page.

    Thread Starter iwantthatroom

    (@iwantthatroom)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks Jacob that answered my question! thanks for that 🙂

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