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Can he do anything besides read database connection which is localhost and not accessible via remote host ?

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  • What's the context behind this, and what do you mean by access? Are we talking read access? write access? both? Or do you mean just going to example.com/wp-config.php in a browser?
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Dec 28, 2018 at 20:43
  • Read access, to be able to read the wp-config contents I had a wp-config.txt backup and I saw it was ccessed via access logs
    – Born vs. Me
    Dec 28, 2018 at 21:11
  • At the risk of committing what my daughter would refer to as "mansplaining," the most important thing to do immediately would be to change your DB credentials - I hope you've already done that.
    – butlerblog
    Dec 28, 2018 at 21:31
  • and reset all passwords, if your secret hashes/salts are exposed then that's a problem too
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Dec 28, 2018 at 21:41
  • he can get access to my wp-admin credentials?
    – Born vs. Me
    Dec 28, 2018 at 21:49

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wp-config.php is an important file of the WP installation. It acts as a bridge between the WP file system and the MySQL database. wp-config.php contains the database connection credentials. Apart from this, it can also be used for:

  • Defining the security keys.
  • To specify the database prefix.
  • To set the default language for your admin panel.

If you have been hacked I recommend looking at: https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

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