We might have come across WordPress website infections through outdated Themes and Plugins which can be resolved by updating themes and plugins regularly. But
What if you got into a situation that your WordPress dashboard admin access removed and you no longer able to access it? How to gain Hacked WordPress dashboard admin access back.
6 Steps to gain Hacked WordPress dashboard admin access :
To gain the WordPress dashboard admin access back, we can add an Admin User to the WordPress Database via MySQL as the hacker might have removed it to restrict the access to the WordPress dashboard.
Note: Make sure you have a backup of your database before performing any MySQL edits.
1.login to your hosting control panel and go to phpMyAdmin and locate your WordPress database.
2.Once you are in, we will be making changes to the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables. Let’s go ahead and click on the wp_users tab
3.now click on the Insert tab and follow the below steps,
- ID – pick a number ( for example 5)
- user_login – insert the username you want to use to access the WordPress Dashboard.
- user_pass – add a password for this username. Make sure to select MD5 in the functions menu.
- user_nicename – put a nickname or something else that you would like.
- user_email – add the email you want to associate with this account.
- user_url – this would be the URL to your website.
- user_registered – select the date/time for when this user is registered.
- user_status – set this to 0.
- display_name – put the name you like to display for this user on the site (it can be your user_nicename value as well).
- Click on the Go Button
4.Next, we have to add the values to the wp_usermeta table. Click on the wp_usermeta table and then click on the Insert tab just like the previous step. Then add the following information to the insert form:
- unmeta_id – leave it as blank it is it will generate automatically.
- user_id – this will be the id of the user you created in the previous step..
- meta_key – this should be wp_capabilities
- meta_value – insert this: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;}
5.Insert another row with the following information:
- unmeta_id – leave it as blank it will generate automatically.
- user_id – this will be the id of the user you created in the previous step.
- meta_key – this should be wp_user_level
- meta_value – 15
6.Then click on the Go button, and you have created a new username. Now you should be able to login to your wp-admin with the username and password you specified for this user. Once logged in, click on Users and edit the username you just created. Go down and click on the Save button.