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Updated wordpress to 6.2 wasn’t far behind maybe 3 months<\/p>\n
user called and said emails on pages were off<\/p>\n
[email protected]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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became<\/p>\n
[email protected]\n<\/code><\/pre>\nEvery Page on a lot of pages<\/p>\n
worse is all user accounts were also tweaked…
\nnot sure if it was a plugin or site update - highly suspicious of a plugin like link checker<\/p>\n
But editing the user account emails is the part confusing me…<\/p>","upvoteCount":8,"answerCount":3,"datePublished":"2023-04-24T16:19:34.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"b-c","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/b-c"},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Updated wordpress to 6.2 wasn’t far behind maybe 3 months<\/p>\n
user called and said emails on pages were off<\/p>\n
[email protected]\n<\/code><\/pre>\nbecame<\/p>\n
[email protected]\n<\/code><\/pre>\nEvery Page on a lot of pages<\/p>\n
worse is all user accounts were also tweaked…
\nnot sure if it was a plugin or site update - highly suspicious of a plugin like link checker<\/p>\n
But editing the user account emails is the part confusing me…<\/p>","upvoteCount":8,"datePublished":"2023-04-24T16:19:34.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/wordpress-updated-rewrote-all-emails-on-site/950685/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"b-c","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/b-c"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
It probably wen throughout all the databases and replaced domain.com<\/a> with www.domain.com<\/a> so that updated the emails. I have seen it happen when there is a sql search with the domain expression.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2023-04-25T04:11:27.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/wordpress-updated-rewrote-all-emails-on-site/950685/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"dbeato","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/dbeato"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"Fixed it via search and replace in all the tables individually with a top level search to identify which tables had the change in them
\nreally only about 12-15 tables.
\nHad I been better at regex and mysql queries probably could have been completed in 15m, but resolved either way!<\/p>\n
No one was accessing the DB - only 1 other could but doesn’t know how.
\nThere are plugins that could have done this though just not sure which one it was.<\/p>\n
broken Link Checker
\nYoast
\nWordpress Migrator
\nWordfence
\nand a host of others<\/p>\n
it was noticed a few days after all plugins were updated and site engine updated to 6.2 via the Updates menu…
\nthinking there was a bug in some of the re-write rules in one of those and it hit the DB…<\/p>\n
not major fixed but still odd<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2023-04-25T11:35:59.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/wordpress-updated-rewrote-all-emails-on-site/950685/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"b-c","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/b-c"}}]}}
