Just spotted on a couple of blogs that I did an automatic update on that the Membership was set to “Anyone can register”. Luckily the default lever was subscriber. There appears to be a cheeky bot out that signing up in the hope of finding a blog where membership is set higher by default. So if you have updated recently, uncheck “Anyone can register”, and consider a fresh download of 2.8.4 and refresh the files to remove the problem. That is assuming that the problem is fixed. On blogs that I have downloaded 2.8.4 for and then FTP’d to the server, this problem did not occur.
