Site appears hacked or Google warns about malware
Time for a thorough scan plus cleanup. Not hope-and-pray, structured.
support/web-en-cms/wp-malware-scansteps: 4
Try this first
- Take it offline or into maintenance mode first
- Run Wordfence or Sucuri scan, review every flagged file
- Compare core files with a clean WP via 'wp core verify-checksums'
- Remove unknown .php files inside wp-content/uploads
When to bring us in
Malware keeps reappearing, a dev must diff to find the backdoor reinjecting it.
See also
- WordPress, plugins and theme have gone 6+ months without updatesOut-of-date WP is the number-one entry for malware. Don't just hit 'update all', back up first.
- Theme update broke the layout or threw a fatal errorThemes overwrite custom CSS on update unless you use a child theme.
- WordPress shows a blank screen after a plugin install or updateWSOD (white screen of death) is usually one crashing plugin. You isolate it.
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