Your site is almost definitely compromised. Doing your own cleanup may not be worth the time and effort because reinfection is likely if you miss a single infected file. At this point I recommend to my clients that they get professional help. You may be able to get more details from a site scan by … Read more
Do you have SSH access? WP-CLI via search-replace. $ wp search-replace ‘<script>bad javascript code</script>’ ” –precise By default, this only searches for tables registered in $wpdb. To overwrite this behaviour, you can use either the –all-tables or –all-tables-with-prefix flag. (Or pass table names to the command manually.) Alternative: Easiest would be to download a dump, … Read more
No there isn’t a way, any more than there is a way to block “spammers” from accessing you home page. I mean you could put all kind of checks, but in the end you will break how sites are supposed to behave which will mean that someone somewhere will not get his content. If all … Read more
Open wp-config.php (which is in your new WordPress installation’s main directory) in a text editor. Locate the line that reads $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; Modify the value of $table_prefix to the prefix in your backup database and Save. Refresh the setup page of your WordPress installation.
If your WordPress website got hacked, hacker will use your site to attack other sites and sending emails. Most of the WordPress sites got affected by the same issue because of using Nulled & Outdated Themes and Plugins. Don’t worry about this issue, because we can easily wipe out the malware infected files from your … Read more
Those are Geo IP databases which tie IP addresses to countries. They probably came from some e-commerce plugin, or a cookie-law plugin, or some other country-specific tool.
Sadly it’s not uncommon to receive many rogue login attempts. If you have a strong password policy this actually shouldn’t worry you too much. If there is a limited amount of people with logins and they work from fixed addresses, you can block acces to that page by writing a rule in your .htaccess that … Read more
I’d try open the spam post in your browser and find the post ID. This will be in a rel=”shortlink” tag in the HTML header: <link rel=”shortlink” href=”https://example.com/?p=123″ /> or as a class page-id-123 or similar on the body tag: <body class=”page-template-default page page-id-123 logged-in admin-bar no-customize-support”> edit that ID into your normal edit post … Read more
When someone sends a POST request with a variable php and a base 64 encoded value that is PHP code after decoding it, that PHP code will run with the permissions of all your own PHP files. The attacker can read all database content, create new users, upload files … The second code does the … Read more
If a WP install is hacked, can it spread to other domains on a server? Sorry to hear that. WordPress security depends on a trust you have in plugins, themes, and the WordPress core itself. If only a single PHP file is damaged, the whole web farm that runs WordPress can be damaged. So the … Read more