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My Wordpress website was hacked

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 ...
Frank P. Walentynowicz's user avatar
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Why my wordpress blog files are getting changed?

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 ...
Krzysiek Dróżdż's user avatar
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My Wordpress website was hacked

This occurs by using NULLED themes and plugins You have to know that everything nulled is contaminated by malicious code. When Nulled is installed, the code wakes up at a certain moment, goes ...
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unable to remove malware from wp website

Over the years, I have developed a process/procedure to recover a hacked site. While backups are good, it's not always clear that a backup is 'clean' and not hacked. My process includes reinstalling ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar
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UpdraftPlus installed malware - scared to download or update plugins now!

It can be time-consuming to 'clean' a WP site, but it can be done with dogged determination. You'll need to reinstall WP/plugins/themes, change hosting and FTP and database credentials, look for rouge ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar
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UpdraftPlus installed malware - scared to download or update plugins now!

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.
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Wordpress filter that hook after each action/filter hook

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'] );
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Antivirus detects Script:SNH-gen Trj in Elementor files

Here's the Virustotal report (including Avast) for the same file from Elementor 3.22.3 (the current version at time of writing), which comes up completely clean. You could use a diff tool to compare ...
Chris Cox's user avatar
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whole website redirected to another page

As mentioned in the comments, your site is probably hacked. I'd suspect the htaccess file first, and then maybe hacked index.php files. Cleaning up a site is difficult and time-consuming, but can be ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar
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src="https://dns.firstblackphase.com/scripts/start.js"

Looks like your site has been compromised (or possibly your computer if its not just happening on your site?) - can you access the admin area? If so I would recommend getting a plugin such as ...
Jaimee Page's user avatar
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malware undetectable by multiple scans

There are many ways to infect a site - and many ways to hide that infection from the 'popular' security plugins. One way to detect malicious code is via a file-hash-compare function. You may need to ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar
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Decoded malware code

The malware stores an array of PHP fragments to execute at the bottom of its own file, delimited and encoded using the MD5 hash of the filename. It has a specific GUID to control it; on start up it ...
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Removing Malware Appended to Each Post

A better approach to cleaning Wordpress posts is to delete all script tags along with their contents. I happen to know there should be no scripts inside my post content so this is safe for me. Make ...
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Removing Malware Appended to Each Post

The answer my friend, was blowing in the regex of str_repl() - using the opening and closing tags to excise the malware script from post_content First I find a few specific posts in the database with ...
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Removing Malware Appended to Each Post

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 ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar
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Suspicious google tag manager

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 ...
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Malware in old website - how to migrate?

There is more to do to clean up a site than export/import posts data. The malware can be anywhere. And it could have gotten into your site via many paths. Before you export/import posts, you need to ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar
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Inject added to title

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, ...
Rick Hellewell's user avatar

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