adding /?abc=someword to page url displays that pages content with altered url

  • adding /?abc=someword to the wordpress website page url displays that pages content with altered url.

    even adding /? to the url pressing enter displays the contents of the homepage for example with the url showing /?

    at first i thought it was /?eqf=saravanaraj-duraisamy (the one alerted by google inferring the site had been hacked) but you can substitute anything and it seems to work /?trump=orwelliannightmare works!

    There was a spammy hack – which I have fully cleaned from the server via cpanel, which is now gone. This has something to do with it but no idea what. A non-malicious (?) remnant – it isnt added dynamically – i doubt it can call anything but how does it linger and how to get rid of it???

    is it search related? does /?abc= always mean a search result?

    pleeeease help!

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by shane_idc.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

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  • How do you find the malware?

    Now I have check with site sucuri, it’s showing no malware detected

    https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/humphreyprice-jones.com

    Thread Starter shane_idc

    (@shane_idc)

    its not malware – its something else. I got rid of all the spam files from the server. I know google says the site is clean – but it will penalise the site for having an infinite number of links all relating to the same site. If you try /?whythefk=doesthiswork – it works!!! it shouldnt exist but it does!

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    I’ve moved this to Fixing WordPress where it belongs. Requests and Feedback is not for support like this.

    adding /?abc=someword to the wordpress website page url displays that pages content with altered url

    Not on other WordPress installations it doesn’t. It’s just happening to you. Right now just visiting your site gets an error message.

    There’s something wrong with your setup. Putting random query stings that aren’t being used will not do anything on WordPress. It will ignore them. If that’s not happening on your site then you will need to troubleshoot.

    If you can log into your site can you please try some temporary troubleshooting steps?

    • Switch to the Twenty Seventeen theme
    • Deactivate all the plugins, no exceptions
    • Clear your browser’s cache and cookies

    And re-visit your site. Does the problem still exist when you do that?

    Thread Starter shane_idc

    (@shane_idc)

    Hey @jdembowski thanks for reply. New info- it happens on other un-related to the incident sites -specifically wordpress sites. Maybe its only in chrome (‘internet’ on s7 redirects when you try and put the bogus url in) – but i tried other sites – allthoseshapes.com, katyperry.com, doylesart.com, umattutor.com – and on internet explorer too. And the person who originally asked me to help said it happens on firefox too…

    So this weirdness does not relate to just the original site I was helping with…

    And just to confirm its not me or my computer or devices alone – i asked a random and he gets the same result (different computer, different house, different suburb) – i asked him to put umattutor.com/?midi=mycat into chrome and enter – it remained as umattutor.com/?midi=mycat. its a wordpress problem possibly not in all browsers but so far chrome, ie, firefox… its not malicious but could be utilised.

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