WordPress’s popularity has made it a prime target for hackers. Each day countless self-hosted WordPress sites are damaged or taken down, usually by automated attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities.
Many WordPress site administrators only learn way too late about the important of pre-emptive security hardening after they have become victims of an attack and have suffered the consequences – loss of visitors, search engine ranking and damage to data.
Vlad Lasky from Aussie WP Expert shares his strategies and approaches to recovering compromised WordPress sites.
- Common ways in which WordPress sites are compromised
- Assessing the damage
- Determining the means of infiltration
- Recovering the WordPress installation
- Preventing reinfection
- Restoring Search Engine ranking