Hack Wordpress - Recover Admin Password

A bit of a misnomer, this article deals with some benign admin tasks.  Assuming you have admin access to the domain hosting a wordpress blog, or at least the sql database you use, password recovery is simple. Let’s begin a rundown of the simple steps to hack your own wordpress account, recover, and reset the administrator password.

1) Access your Database.  using phpMyAdmin or a sql console front end, you can access your database.

2) Access the users.

3) Access the password field.

4) Pick out a new password and use one of the umpteen million md5 hash generators to encode your password.

5) once you have your new md5 hash, paste it into the field under phpMyAdmin or under your mysql console logon.

6) Now, you can logon as admin for your wordpress site.

Notes: I guess this reposting of the wp passkey recovery “feature” is a bit disconcerting if you’re using  hosting with some other scrungy-third world isp or a buddy (especially a nerdy boyfriend) that could potentially use this simple sql feature against you, however, anytime you use software you should be aware that it may perform functions that are not explicitly documented up front.