Hi @megazord,
I’m sorry to hear you are running into that issue. When you say that the plugin vanishes, is it deleted and you can install it again from Plugins > Add New?
When you visit the Plugins page after this happens do you see a notice that the plugin has been deactivated due to the files missing?
hi support, no notice of deactivation whatsoever. If i add it again everything restores back to how it was. By vanish i mean it’s like it was removed cleanly but there are no other admins other than myself and if the site was compromised it would be worse but the site works fine.
Hi @megazord,
If there are any doubts about someone else accessing your website admin, I suggest changing your password and using a different password for each website.
I asked about the notice on the plugins page, since that would potentially indicate the plugin being deleted via FTP.
Did you install any new plugins on these 2 websites recently before this started happening?
hi support, I will check ftp logs with the host. Passwords are very strong and long as well.
Unfortunately no new plugins has been installed and they were launched fully. I will check back once i have an update on the ftp log
Hi Support,
There was no ftp account on one website the issue appeared on. The other had an ftp account but no access logs. I have since removed the ftp account from the site that had it. Passwords has now been changed, and I’ve also installed a plugin to log activities so that I can pin point where the issue comes from. Thanks
@megazord thank you for the update, please let us know what you find
No dog in this race but…. something like this happened to me a few months back. It is very likely to be a conflicting plugin. One that is not well made. In my case it was a MyCred plugin that kept forcing other plugins to deactivate and/or act oddly. It was wierd! I uninstalled it becasue it was fishy, and a week later there was a report of the CVE vulnerability in it.
I also recommend you search each plugin and the word “cve vulnerability” on google or ask GPT to tell you about vulnerabilities on your pasted lists of plugins. You might learn more there as something might be so poorly coded it strips WP code. OR is otherwise trying to prevent your code working (assuming you haven’t created code that would intefer with WPC and entered it into WPC)…
If you have some complex code in WPC you could try making the last one you added before the problem INACTIVE and see if you stabilize.
Finally, unless you have a ton of custom code or troubled your functions.php file, i would recommend turning each plugin off one by one, clearing the cache and hard reloading between to see the culprit.
I won’t see the reply (as again no puppy in this race just sharing some ideas that I hope help)
good luck my fellow site publisher
nod to Plugin dev I really love WP Code
