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I’ve had this, also. Two sites, same server (shared hosting).
I chased this up with my host to see if they’d been auditing MySQL entries, which they had, so I could investigate something myself and they also said that the IP address had also been probing other sites on the server for the Wysija-Newsletter plugin.
Interestingly, I had a Wordfence ‘blacklisted user’ email, today, for the NULL user trying to log in. Same IP address.
So, maybe it was a Wordfence bug, as they suggest in that other post, that’s been fixed now.
If you search around there are hits for this dating back to last year.
Hey Josh,
Thanks for getting back to me, appreciated.
I also cross posted this issue in the CSS Igniter private forums, too.
They guy, there, got back to me and ID’d it as the permalink structure I had set up.I use: /%postname%-%post_id%/ (based on a, since removed, linked to article from ww.wp.xz.cn) and it’s the trailing %post_id% that causes it. It ONLY happens in the /%postname%-%post_id%/ format (I tested different variations to confirm this).
If Thirsty affiliates is installed, the permalink structure %postname%-%post_id% is being used and a 404 page is generated then the 404 is redirected to the latest URL entry in Thirsty affiliates.
Interestingly, if Thirsty affiliates is NOT installed (not just deactivated but not installed) and that permalink structure is used then the proper 404 page is shown but without any CSS styling (remove the post_id in the permalinks and the CSS styling comes back). Weird?!
I’d say that there is some conflict with CSS Igniter themes and Thirsty affiliates but I have a hunch that there’s some weird stuff going on with the server (I’ve had some very, very strange things happen of late – which coincide with the server guys ‘hardening’ the server against the recent brute force attacks).
I’m going to do some more testing (on a localised install as well as a different server) to see if I can narrow down the issue further. I’ll report back here if I find anything – if not I’ll just mark this issue as resolved.
Cheers, Phil.