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HELP! Speaker repair question

My live gear is a Warwick Rockbass with active pickups, ampeg svt pro series bass head, and a ampeg svt-410hlf classic series bass cabinet.

The head is not mine.

During performances I'll occasionally get popping and breaking on my E string, but recently I noticed a rattling inside of the cabinet.

I opened it up and found that the back magnet on my top right speaker fell off.
I removed the magnet is now desperately trying to figure out how to reattach the magnet.

It appears to have been attached with glue.

HELP.
 
If you try to glue it together again, expect to fail.
Like B-string said, either get a pro to fix it or buy a new spkr.
I wouldn't trust a driver that went so wrong, so my advice is to replace.

If your budget isn't up to it, just get something cheaper with the same impedance and a close-enough power handling rating.
One cheap wonky speaker isn't going to kill your sound when there are three other original ones.
When I played guitar, one Eminence in an Ampeg 4x12" cab made no difference, although 2 Celestions in a Peavey was noticeable.
Move them around so that the crappier one is at the lower-left position--this is where all bad drivers belong. ;)
 
If your budget isn't up to it, just get something cheaper with the same impedance and a close-enough power handling rating.
One cheap wonky speaker isn't going to kill your sound when there are three other original ones.
When I played guitar, one Eminence in an Ampeg 4x12" cab made no difference, although 2 Celestions in a Peavey was noticeable.

You can get away with that in guitar cabs but bass, not so much. One oddball driver will interfere with the others and likely not sound as good or as strong as if you just left it unhooked and played through the 3 good ones.

Your one bad speaker without the magnet is now acting like a poorly incorporated passive radiator flapping around with the changes in pressure made by the drivers that do work. That'll be the cause of your farting sound. Need to get it fixed or replaced.