White Screen of Death strikes another victim

  • All,

    I have absolutely no programming skills and most of my admin screen is blank. I have no problem logging in and can see the site looks fine on the internet (www.succinctresearch.com). The admin toolbar on the left side of the screen is there and I can access some of the things on it. For example, I can access my SmallBiz theme options under “Appearance”, but I can’t access any of the other things under Appearance. I can also access “BWS Plugins” and “CodeGuard” on the admin panel toolbar on the left side of the screen. Finally, I can’t see the grey navigation bar at the top of the screen when I try to login, but I can access it if I click on “Appearance” while logged into the admin screen.

    Basically, I can see that I have plugins but I can’t update them or add anything to my blog.

    I think my sin is not conducting all the updates as they arrived. I have 10 updates, but can’t get them to work because of the white screen. I don’t know which WordPress version I’m using because the following statement is at the top of the screen for my theme: “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now.” And, “WordPress 3.8 is available! Please update now.”

    I tried re-naming the plugin and theme files on my Bluehost account and had no success. I went one-by-one and it didn’t fix the problem. I even changed each file’s name, logged out, then logged back in each time and it didn’t work. When I changed the theme names, it blanked out my site on the internet, which makes me think the problem is with a plugin or the fact that I need to update wordpress.

    Anyone out there want to give me a hand. I’m at a loss and this has ruined my morning.

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  • Hello,

    Go to:

    wp-content/

    rename the folder named “plugins” to “plugins123”. (without quotes)

    Open your browser and clear your cache, browsing data etc.

    Then Open yoursite.com/wp-admin/.

    Hi it seems it could be some vulnerability of wordpress. When I upload WP 8 files, its Ok at beggining after some minutes its down (seems blog is old and could be registered somewhere for checking). What i found is: load.php under wp-includes is changed in line:
    * @return null Will return null if register_globals PHP directive was disabled
    */$xpath = dirname(__FILE__); $xname = basename(__FILE__);
    @require(dirname(__FILE__).’/cpt.php’);

    and cpt.php is then new file (not from wordpress but new created on wp-includes with content: https://pastebin.com/byjCGXhN

    If we change only load.php from WP 3.6, blog doesnt work.

    When I deleted wp-includes and wp-admin and return them from release wp 3.6 RC2 https://www.ads-software.com/download/release-archive/ then blog is stable and doesnt crash anymore.

    It looks like security question..

    regards, georg

    @marcelinosi – please start your own thread if you need help as per the forum guidelines:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

    Thanks sorry for me is now 3.6 ok. I just want to alert developers from possible danger..

    Using 3.6 IS a security risk. There aren’t any known issues with 3.8 – if there were this kind of issue, we’d be seeing many people reporting similar problems. Can you reproduce the problem with ALL plugins deactivated and a default theme active? For further discussion, please start your own thread.

    Thread Starter radmaster100

    (@radmaster100)

    Sorry costib, it didnt work. I think the problem is with the hosting as one of the three sites I have on Bluehost is fine, but two of them are blank.

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