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
When you write PHP code, you can do just about anything. So when you run the code of a plugin it can do just about anything as well. It can query the database and get whatever info is there (which is why it’s a good idea to store passwords as hashes.) Since it can query … Read more
You need to look for unusual files in your server. And that means to look at all files, even though the datestamp might not be changed. Like the htaccess files, files with double extensions, all index.* files. Look at them with an editor that wraps long lines. Some malware likes to put lots of extra … Read more
Dear you don’t need to worry about much – if its a fresh installation and you don’t have any data on your website – eg post, article, images or anything then I prefer you t install a clean fresh wordpress again from the sketches after a complete scan of your hosting. and if you have … Read more