Hi, I just wanted to let you guys know the outcome - as soon as you told me you did not recognize the code I knew it was not integral to my theme.co files and I started to investigate further on my own which I probably should of just done from the beginning.
It turns out this is from a back door virus installed on my WP somehow, the back door is called wp-vcd and it is well documented online, a simple google search revealed to me the directories and files that had been modified/created/tampered with and I was able to remove the back door within about an hour after a few quick scares and nail biting moments.
I wanted to share with the community this back door is called wp-vcd and if anyone sees an error similar to this they probably are infected as well. I have not installed any ‘cracked’ software or plugins or themes etc so I think I was targeted because I hadn’t updated my website in about 5 months and maybe the lack of updates to WP and the plugins I was using created a vulnerability. I’m still not exactly sure.
I also don’t think the backdoor was successfully executed fully on my server, because in the guides I read to remove the back-door it said it will create a WP user named like “1000001111111” something to that effect and I had no un-known user accounts created in my WP dashboard or FTP.
