WordPress security articles, guides, and announcements.
You search for your own website and see it: "This site may be hacked" right below your listing in Google. Or worse, a full red interstitial page warning visitors away before they even reach your site....
In 2025, researchers found 11,334 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem, a 42% jump from the year before. Sucuri scanned 70.8 million websites and flagged over 1.1 million as infected. Wordfe...
If you manage 50, 500, or 5,000 WordPress sites, running security scans one at a time is not practical, especially with [hundreds of new WordPress vulnerabilities disclosed every month](/blog/wordpres...
WordPress powers over 40% of the web. That also makes it the most targeted CMS on the planet. Outdated plugins, weak configurations, and [known vulnerabilities are exploited daily](/blog/how-wordpress...
Most WordPress site owners find out they have been hacked weeks or months after the initial breach. By then, the damage is done: search rankings have dropped, visitors are being redirected to spam sit...
WordPress security pricing is all over the map. Some tools are free but limited. Others charge $500/year and include features you will never use. The result is that most site owners either overpay for...
Choosing a WordPress security scanner is confusing. There are dozens of options, ranging from free plugins to $500/year enterprise plans, and [what you actually pay depends on which layer of security...
When attackers compromise a WordPress site, the malware you see is not the real problem. The real problem is the backdoor they leave behind. A backdoor is a hidden piece of code that gives the attack...
A compromised blog is bad. A compromised WooCommerce store is a crisis. When a regular WordPress site gets hacked, you lose traffic and reputation. When a WooCommerce store gets hacked, you potential...
Most WordPress security advice is either too vague ("keep your site secure") or too paranoid ("disable everything"). This checklist focuses on what actually prevents the majority of WordPress attacks,...