Home page random string hack

[mojito]

I have the following:
After the homepage final slash of google.com (substitute site) any random string renders the home page normally but with a title from a specific article. I have checked the raw db content for that and nothing suspicious.

When I unpublish this article the issue goes away.

How could I debug this to find perhaps where this is getting manipulated to maybe find the hacked code if it is hacked. Sounds like it is to me.

Always worth checking your sites for this one as it's so quick to do. Even for poorly fashioned redirects it's a good check.

So is the normal route behaviour getting stopped as the 404 should be happening.

Thanks.

[Per Yngve Berg]

That's normal behaviour with legacy routing.

Switch to Modern Routing and set Remove ID from URL in the Options of Article Manager.

[mojito]

Hi Per
Thanks for contributing. I checked the options of the articles for this and also at the article level. I didn't find it but duckduckgo did along with your help.

https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:New_Routing_System

Thanks

I was not using this as it is an older site and I remember the release now. But I think my other older sites don't suffer from this.