This section explains file write permissions, an important WordPress security issue.
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Learn how to use the WordPress Doctor Malware Scan & Security plugin to scan and examine your plugins for vulnerabilities.
WordPress and plugins require updates to close vulnerabilities, but we will explain the most dangerous types of vulnerabilities.
Through the development of WordPress security plug-ins and the recovery of many malware-infected sites, WordPress Doctor has studied how hackers tamper with WordPress and embed malware.
We have summarized some of the security measures taken by WordPress, which are often misunderstood by many people and often result in tampering and malware embedding!
The following is a list of common symptoms that occur when a site is infected with malware. If you see something wrong with the behavior of the site, please refer to these symptoms and perform a malware scan.
Here are five free WordPress security measures you can take.
How easy is a WordPress site to be hacked really? We would like to examine these numbers and probabilities and consider how easy it is for a WordPress site to be hacked.
We know that many WordPress sites have security plug-ins. We will consider how much the possibility of your site being hacked is reduced by installing this security plugin.
We know that reinfection of a WordPress site with malware is the last thing a site operator wants, as it prolongs the period of time that the site is in disrepair and can cause problems with clients. Here we would like to explain the five main factors that can cause reinfection.
Recently, we have been receiving an increasing number of requests for malware removal from sites that have older versions of Movable Type mixed in with their servers.
This section describes a redirect hack that forces WordPress to go to a different rogue site only in rare cases (some patterns say only on smartphones) when jumping from search engine results, and explains how to deal with it.
phpMyAdmin is a widely used database management system that allows you to view your database and make all possible edits and modifications in your browser, but it can cause security problems if it is installed in the folder where WordPress is installed. We will explain the reason
A redirect hack is a type of tampering in which a hacker alters site data or theme files to force users to go to a page that the hacker wants them to go to instead of the page they originally wanted to see. The following is an explanation of a common example of a redirect hack, i
Most WordPress malware and tampering is done to program files, and only rarely is the database tampered with. However, when a database tampering vulnerability is found in a very popular plugin, database tampering (known as SQL injection) hacking can become an epidemic.
There have been an increasing number of cases where a hacker has embedded a number of malicious HTACCESS files in a site, making it impossible to log in to the administration screen. This case study will be explained in this issue.
We will explain how to decontaminate malware using the WordPress:Malware Scan & Security plugin [Malware and Virus Detection and Removal], which was created by WordPress Doctor based on his experience with numerous malware removal requests.
Duplicator, a plugin deployed on millions of sites that allows users to migrate, copy, move, clone, and create backups of WordPress sites, is vulnerable in versions 1.3.26 and below.
