Do you have any security plugins? If not, have you asked your hosting company about this?
No I don’t have any security plugin, it happens also on a site with only wordpress recently installed and nothing else.
This started after upgrading to wordpress 3.6.1.
That’s not a default WordPress message. So it is either being added by a plugin, a theme or by your hosts. Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
It happens also on a site with only wordpress 3.6.1 installed , no plugins only the twenty thirteen theme nothing else.
Unfortunately I cannot go back to a backup on this site because it is a fresh installed site.
In fact I have two fresh sites with only wordpress 3.6.1. and nothing else.
The same happens on both of them.
I am glad to see that someone else has the same problem.
I have a site where I upgraded from 3.6 to 3.6.1 , I use this site to try out themes and plugins.
I had a backup with wordpress 3.6 , I went back to this backup with wordpress 3.6.
The problem disappeared I now get directly the wordpress login screen.
In my view it is definitely a wordpress issue.
You should not use an outdated version of WP – have you asked your hosting company about this?
I ran a full scan of the entire default WordPress package looking for any sign of such an error message. There was none. This is not a default WordPress issue. As suggested, try contacting your hosts about it.
I have contacted my host, but I have not received a reaction yet.
But the strange thing is that in a post above of barthusz he has the same problem on definetely another host.
As I now have sites with and without the problem I looked if I could quickly find differences.
I found something a file called setcookiewpprotect.php
with the content
<?php
setcookie("24203", "24203");
echo ('<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>WordPress security</title>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
BODY
{
color:black;
font-family:arial;
}
-->
</STYLE>
<body>
<center><h2>WordPress Security</h2></center>
<h1><center><a href="wp-login.php" rel="nofollow">Click here to continue to your WordPress login</a></center></h1>
</body>
</html>');
?>
where this file comes from I have no idea, but it is definitely the one causing the problem.
At about the same time I found another post on this subject ,
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/strange-wordpress-security-page-and-htaccess-code?replies=3#post-4662303.
Is it possible to join them togeter?
Unfortunately I have still not received an answer from my host.
I found something a file called setcookiewpprotect.php
That’s not a file that ships with WordPress. Have you contacted your hosts about it?
@wimgbax: Please stop posting in other topics about this.
I discovered the same file, setcookiewpprotect.php
I will dive in this problem tomorrow, will backup the site and scan for other strange files.
And turn every plugin off, see what is causing this.
My website is a fresh WordPress install with just a few plugins used, hopefully it is no hack.
@barthusz: As per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. Posting in an existing topic prevents us from being able to track issues by topic.
