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An admin user with the username XYZ was created outside of WordPress.

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Hi there, I am using WF since a long time and never had this warning before.

So according the plugin 2 days ago (24th march) An admin user with the username XYZ was created outside of WordPress.
Type: Unknown Administrator.

XYZ is just a placeholder for my real username that I really do use on that site, I replaced it myself. The message of course holds my real Username.

I have checked and I have no other user on that site with XYZ as username, obvious, since that’s me and I am the admin. So there could not be a second user with the same user name.

Why is this message being pushed, and should we ignore it? I would consider this a bit alarming because users will “panic”, while there seems no reason to panic at all.
Most of all I am confused why WF detects this to be happened 2 days ago while the site is years old and WF is installed on it since a good while now.

Anything related to the update recently pushed?

Would appreciate input on this, thanks.

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