Is there a malicious code inside my wordpress site? Probably. Carefully follow FAQ – My Site Was Hacked – WordPress Codex. Then take a look at the recommended security measures in Hardening WordPress – WordPress Codex and Brute Force Attacks – WordPress Codex Change all passwords. Scan your own PC. Tell your web host you … Read more
You should be able to back up your site through your hosting control panel. This is a better option than adding bloat to your WP install to duplicate functionality you already have elsewhere.
Is the malware in each post in the database? If so, something is inserting it, so you need to fix that first. Lots of googles/bings/ducks on how to remove malware from a WP site. (I have my own procedure here that I use for clients: https://www.securitydawg.com/recovering-from-a-hacked-wordpress-site/ ; there are others.) I’d do a thorough cleanup … Read more
It’s good that you’ve regained access to your website, but without any further action, you’ll get hacked again. These are steps to take, in order to clean, and secure your site: do not panic ( very important ) do not remove anything yourself install and activate WordFence Security plugin in Wordfence -> Options, select everything … Read more
Check also if it was added by JavaScript. To list all the functions hooked wp_footer, this might help: global $wp_filter; var_dump( $wp_filter[‘wp_footer’] );
I would diagnose/fix as if there was a hack of your system. Lots of references in the googles about that. But my technique is to change credentials on everything (hosting, wp admin users, database, FTP users), reinstall/upgrade everything (WP via the Upgrades page, plugins and themes via manual FTP transfer), check Child Theme code (if … Read more
It’s really hard to give you a 100% solid answer, because there is not much info in your question, but… Let me do some educated guesses… The files that are mentioned in your question are very often used by attackers to put some malware code. Why? Almost all WP sites have these files. Most of … Read more
WordPress is inherently quite secure software, because of open source, extremely wide installation base and reasonably fast security updates. There is no such thing as security plugin that magically increases security, while causing no conflicts. Security plugins either act to monitor situation and inform you after the fact (important, but it’s not prevention measure) or … Read more
Out of the box multisite has the same security as wordpress.com gives it users – being that it strips all kinds of extras, even if you are an administrator of your own blog. Super Admin has the basic WordPress permissions, everyone else does not. no iframes, no javascript, no code.
When I disable Content Visibility for Divi Builder then the tag goes away. Seems suspicious… maybe they got hacked or maybe they are bad cookies. Will try to move this to the proper reporting channels. AoD Technologies LLC is the developer. Edit: wanted to temper this with a third possibility of tracking the usage of … Read more