WordPress Vulnerability Report: March 2026
Every week the WordPress ecosystem produces a fresh wave of vulnerability disclosures. Most site owners never hear about them until something goes wrong. This report covers every significant disclosur...
600 WordPress Security Scans: What the Data Reveals
When we launched WP Vanguard, we had a simple goal: make professional-grade WordPress security scanning accessible to every site owner, not just enterprises with big budgets. A few months in, we have...
Free WordPress Site Monitoring: Uptime, SSL, Blacklist and Performance
Most WordPress site owners find out their site is down the same way their customers do: they try to visit it and get an error. They find out their SSL certificate expired when Chrome starts showing th...
Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities That Put Thousands of Sites at Risk
The WordPress ecosystem saw a sharp wave of security disclosures over the past week. Multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities surfaced across popular plugins and themes, with one flaw activ...
What to Do When Google Says 'This Site May Be Hacked
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....
How WordPress Sites Actually Get Hacked: 7 Real Attack Paths
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...
WP Vanguard Partner API - Security Scanning for Agencies and Hosting Companies
If you manage 50, 500, or 5,000 WordPress sites, running security scans one at a time is not practical. You need an API that fits into your existing workflow, runs scans on your schedule, and reports...
Introducing WP Vanguard - Free WordPress Security Scanner
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 Outdated plugins, weak configurations, and known vulnerabilities are exploited daily, often on sites whose...
9 Signs Your WordPress Site Has Been Hacked (And What to Do Next)
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...
What Does WordPress Security Actually Cost? A Realistic Breakdown
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...