WordPress Hacked Site Recovery
A full compromise is more than malware in a file. It usually means rogue accounts, modified core, scheduled tasks that reinstall the payload, and credentials that must be treated as exposed. Recovery is a sequence, and the order matters.
Price confirmed after a quick look, before any work starts. If your case is more involved, you get a revised quote to approve — never a surprise invoice.
- Typical turnaround
- Within 24 hours
- Guarantee
- 14 days
- Fixed-price quote first
- Root-cause fix, not a band-aid
- 14-day correction guarantee
Symptoms I see with this.
If any of these describe what you're looking at, this is the right fix. If you're not sure, describe it and I'll point you at the right one.
- Homepage defaced or replaced
- Admin accounts you did not create
- Site sending spam, or the host has suspended it
- Hundreds of spam pages indexed under your domain
- Files modified at times nobody was working
What usually causes it.
In roughly the order I check them. Knowing the likely causes is what makes a fix fast rather than exploratory.
Vulnerable plugin exploited
Still the leading entry point. The specific plugin and version are usually identifiable from access logs, which also tells you when it happened.
Stolen credentials
Admin, FTP or hosting credentials obtained elsewhere. If this is the cause, hardening the site alone changes nothing — rotation is the fix.
Persistence mechanisms
Attackers plant multiple ways back in: extra admin users, modified core files, WP-Cron entries that re-download the payload, malicious code in the database.
Server or neighbour compromise
Sometimes the site was never the entry point at all. Access logs distinguish this, and it changes the entire remediation plan.
What the job includes.
- Evidence preserved before any changes are made
- Scope assessed — what was reached and when
- Full cleanup including database, cron and rogue accounts
- Core, theme and plugin integrity restored against official releases
- Every credential the site held flagged for rotation
- Hardening applied against the identified entry point
- Google and host de-listing handled
- Written incident report
- 14-day correction guarantee
Questions, answered.
Should I just restore a backup?
Usually not as the first move. A restore overwrites the evidence that explains what happened, and if the entry point was a vulnerable plugin, the backup reinstates it. I snapshot first, then decide.
Do I have to tell my customers?
If personal data may have been accessed, you likely have a legal obligation depending on your jurisdiction. I will tell you what the technical evidence shows about what was reachable; the disclosure decision needs your own legal advice.
How do I know it's really gone?
File integrity verification against official releases, a clean database scan, no unexpected accounts or cron entries, and file monitoring afterwards to catch anything that returns.
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Send the symptoms, when it started, and what changed just before. You'll get a straight answer and a fixed price — usually the same day.
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