New Users overwriting Admin/1st user in database

What do you mean by it “overwrote” the admin user?

Usually weird things happen from plugins interfering.

Sorry I have not replied sooner …

what is happening is that a new user signs-up and their information (username, privilege level, e-mail, name, etc…) goes into the “wp_users” and “wp_usersmeta” database tables in the first “line” in place of the admin information that was originally in there … as the first user.

It happened again this afternoon. Several users can be added and then all of a sudden someone signs-up and their information goes into that first “spot” in the wp_users and wp_usersmeta database tables.

I cannot find a pattern in when it happens.

Liz

What is completely confusing is that everything was working perfectly fine for 70 or so member/user sign-ups … then randomly one person “overwrote” the admin. Then it was fine again … then it happened again last week. Then again it was fine until this afternoon and happened again.

Now, at the time of the first issue – I don’t believe I had made any plug-in changes … at least not that I recall – but it was a few weeks ago so I might have made an update, I’m not sure.

Liz

Then you’ll have to start troubleshooting by disabling plugins.

That would be fine if this were a constant problem. As in, once it happens it happens every time a new user signs-up. But it isn’t. I can’t disable a plug-in for a week or more and see if that is causing the problem.

It happens, I fix it and add the person the right way – appending them as a user to the table, and then it doesn’t happen again for quite some time. 10 or more people can sign-up before it happens again – and the number doesn’t seem to be consistent.

Has anyone else had this issue? Someone else told me they thought they had heard of this with WordPress Mu – but wasn’t sure if it was exactly the same. In this case, they aren’t setting up a site at first, I set-up the site for them later….

I have only the plug-ins that I absolutely need enabled. Is there any other way to troubleshoot? Perhaps, can I give you a list of the plug-ins I’m using to see if you have heard of a known issue?

Liz

The old MU issues was a user being added as a Super Admin, I remember it. ??

hard to say what it woudl be with just a list of plugins – you really have to have a look at logs on the server to see what’s going on at the time it happens.

Oh, ok. No that isn’t happening. When the user over writes the admin — they overwrite the admin user at the level they are coming in at.

Could be a Wishlist Member issue, I’ll check with them to see if they have any “insight” or ideas.

I’ll also check the logs.

I did look at the user lists and the 66th member was the first one that had the issue, then it was the 90th member and then 137th … so no pattern there.

I will let you know if I find anything from Wishlist Member (that is the plug-in I’m using to manage the membership area) or from the logs.

Thank you for your time!

Liz

Are you using Buddypress, perchance?

no, I do have Simple:Press Forum installed though ..

Ahhh… if it;s sharing users, then something like that *could* do it.