Title: wp-admin Lockout
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# wp-admin Lockout

 *  [mszaf01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mszaf01/)
 * (@mszaf01)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-lockout/)
 * I need help.
 * Over the weekend, I went to log into my blog via wp-admin and got a blank page.
   The main website remained functional.
 * I tried some of the forums’ advice including shutting off plugins and themes 
   and none of it worked. I had not made any changes to either between the last 
   time I logged in and when I tried to do so again.
 * After some fiddling, namely replacing the wp-includes folder from wordpress, 
   I started getting the following error message on wp-admin
 * > Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output
   > started at /home/content/50/9153350/html/wp-load.php:1) in /home/content/50/
   > 9153350/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1228
 * If I understand other forums correctly, that means I have an error in line 1 
   of wp-load. This is the following code in that line/file.
 * _[ Redacted, don’t post that malware snippet here. ]_
 * But I don’t know what to change now.
 * Should I just reinstall WordPress? Help!
 * -Matt

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-lockout/#post-7452780)
 * You’ve been hacked.
 * Remain calm and carefully follow this guide. When you’re done, you may want to
   implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)
 *  Thread Starter [mszaf01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mszaf01/)
 * (@mszaf01)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-lockout/#post-7452797)
 * Any thoughts about where to begin in terms of locating the hack?
 *  Thread Starter [mszaf01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mszaf01/)
 * (@mszaf01)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-lockout/#post-7452808)
 * Well, I guess I’ll start with upgrading WordPress. I thought I had the latest
   version, but I guess I didn’t. Hopefully that will at least let me into admin.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-lockout/#post-7452833)
 * Please remain calm and carefully follow [this guide](https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked).
 * When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of [the recommended security measures](https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-lockout/#post-7452833)
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