[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9741: Database issue allows creation of articles

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#9741: Database issue allows creation of articles
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 Reporter:  davehope     |       Owner:  anonymous 
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.8       
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:            
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 My host killed the mysqld process, causing some of the MySQL tables to be
 flagged as corrupt (wp_options for one).

 Wordpress thought it was a new installation, and showed wp-
 admin/install.php. Visitors were going through the install process setting
 the title of my site and wordpress created the "About" page, the example
 post and comment.

 When I awoke, I repaired the corruption with myisamchk. In my case the
 page title hadn't been changed but the new items were created.

 Some options I think would prevent this ocuring for others are:

 - The installation page should require an admin to login if it's not the
 first installation. I'm not sure what would happen if the table holding
 user accounts was corrupt though.

 - Do some checks on the status of the tables and halt the installation if
 any of the tables aren't in a healthy state?

 My suggestion is probably more of an enhancement request that a bug, so
 I've filed it as such.

 Thanks

 Dave

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