Who is the user “other” as defined in the history

When “Other” is used as the one that did something that means that the plugin was unable to determine who was responsible.

The plugin checks these things to determine who is responsible:

– First it calls the function wp_get_current_user() to get the current logged in user. If a user is logged in then that user gets responsible for the action.
– If something is done during a cron job then “WordPress” gets responsible for the action. The plugin checks if the constant DOING_CRON is set and is true.
– If the constant WP_CLI is set and true then “WP_CLI” gets responsible for the action.

So if all above “fails”, i.e. no user, no cronjob, no wp cli, then the user is “Other”.

Now this does not explain who/what “Other” is in your case… :/ However, you could try to click the date/time of the logged event and a window pops up that perhaps contains some more clues of what’s going on. You can paste that info here and perhaps I can get a clue of what’s happening. (Before pasting just check that no sensitive information is included.)

Context data

This is potentially useful meta data that a logger has saved.

Key Value

id 143422

logger SimpleUserLogger

level warning

date 2021-07-20 22:55:56

message Failed to login with username “{login}” (incorrect password entered)

initiator web_user

context_message_key user_login_failed

login_id 1479

login_email (deleted for privacy)

login sarahbelle

server_http_user_agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36

_message_key user_login_failed

_server_remote_addr 193.19.240.0

THIS IS THE ONE THAT WAS ABLE TO CREATE THE ADMIN BELOW

Other July 16, 2021 - 1:32 am (Jul 16, 2021 at 1:32)
Created user f_islandescape ([email protected]) with role administrator
Context data

This is potentially useful meta data that a logger has saved.

                    Key
                    	Value
                

                        id
                        	142285
                    

                        logger
                        	SimpleUserLogger
                    

                        level
                        	info
                    

                        date
                        	2021-07-16 04:02:59
                    

                        message
                        	Created user {created_user_login} ({created_user_email}) with role {created_user_role}
                    

                        initiator
                        	other
                    

                        context_message_key
                        	user_created
                    

                        created_user_id
                        	2414
                    

                        created_user_email
                        	[email protected]
                    

                        created_user_login
                        	f_islandescape
                    

                        created_user_role
                        	administrator
                    

                        created_user_first_name
                        	
                    

                        created_user_last_name
                        	
                    

                        created_user_url
                        	
                    

                        send_user_notification
                        	0
                    

                        server_http_user_agent
                        	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36
                    

                        _message_key
                        	user_created
                    

                        _server_remote_addr
                        	46.39.72.0
                    

                        _server_http_referer
                        	https://islandescape.ca/wp-login.php?action=register

Thanks eskapism,

your explanation is very helpful, however, we had a weird experience, the page “shopping cart” (standard woocommerce page) was deleted by the user “other” too, how is this even possible, see log

Other August 28, 2021 - 11:19 am (16 days ago)
Moved page "Shopping Cart" to the trash
Context data
This is potentially useful meta data that a logger has saved.

Key	Value
id	28412
logger	SimplePostLogger
level	info
date	2021-08-28 18:19:22
message	Moved {post_type} "{post_title}" to the trash
initiator	other
context_message_key	post_trashed
post_id	1424
post_type	page
post_title	Shopping Cart
_message_key	post_trashed
_server_remote_addr	70.32.112.0
_server_http_x_forwarded_for_0	70.32.112.0
_server_http_x_forwarded_for_1	70.32.112.0
_server_http_referer	https://xxxxx.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wp_1_wc_privacy_cleanup&nonce=45ec62d50e

Thanks

@ivanrojas I have no idea what could cause this. I found another user who had the same problem, unfortunately without a solution.

I quickly looked att the action wc_privacy_cleanup and it does indeed trash pages, but it should not trash ordinary pages, only WooCommerce orders if I understand correctly. You could try to post the same question at the WooCommerce support forum, they can probably help you better.