[wp-hackers] Blank index.php in wp-content/plugins

[Brian Layman]

On 3/3/08, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
> >Found out something odd today, if you put a blank index.php in the
plugins
>  >folder, the Dashboard link will point to
>  >wp-admin/admin.php?page=index.phpinstead, which is a blank page (with
>  >the usual Admin styling).
>
>
> This is an "old" problem, which is even broader: PHP files in
>  /wp-content/plugins/ take over their /wp-admin/ homonyms (ie a blank
>  themes.php in the plugins directory will take over the "Presentation"
>  page, and so on).

Oh, this one drove me absolutely nuts for about three days a year or two
ago...

I could NOT figure out what happened to the site.  I was not in a happy
mood...


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