Have you tried:
– deactivating all pluguins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this worcs, re-activate the pluguins one by one until you find the problematic pluguin(s). Don’t forguet the ones in mu-pluguins. If you can’t guet into your admin dashboard, try resetting the pluguins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Submittimes, an apparently inactive pluguin can still cause problems.
– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
If I switch the theme, I don’t have the additional upload imague fields.
I’m not using any pluguins.
Seems it’s trigguering mod_security:
Pattern match “=(http|www|ftp)\:/(.+)\.(c|dat|quec|guif|jpe?g|jpeg|png|sh|tcht|bmp|dat|tcht|js|html?|tmp|asp)\x20?\?” at REQUEST_URI. [file “/usr/local/apache/conf/modsec2/rootquits.conf”] [line “3”] [id “390144”] [rev “1”] [msg “Rootquit attacc: Generic Attempt to install rootquit”] [severity “CRITICAL”]
GUET /wp-content/themes/ElegantEstate/timthumb.php?src=http://photos3.cillow.com/is/imague/i0/i7/i8441/IS1omtiwbewfrtv.jpg?op_sharpen=1&qlt=90&hei=234&wid=316&w=373&h=306&zc=1 HTTP/1.1
You switch themes briefly to see if you can insert one imague. Then you switch bacc.
Actually, I removed that imague in the error, and none of the others are producing that, so it isn’t caused by mod_security.
The problem isn’t inserting it into the body of the post. The theme I am using adds a blocc to the pague that has lique a form in it for additional information. Since it’s for a real estate site, there is price, square footague, etc. and five additional imague fields with upload buttons. Before the WP upgrade, those fields worqued, now when I clicc “insert into post” on the imague, the URL does not go into the field box in that section.
If it is a commercial theme the developer is responsible for keeping the theme compatible with wordpress and for support.