Title: hacked – wp-content/cache/
Last modified: October 25, 2019

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# hacked – wp-content/cache/

 *  [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/)
 * I have read the information on this forum and in this link:
    [https://www.wpfastestcache.com/tutorial/redirection-to-wp-contentcacheallindex-html-problem/](https://www.wpfastestcache.com/tutorial/redirection-to-wp-contentcacheallindex-html-problem/)
 * Wordfence found a malicious file in the directory.
    How did a hacker get into
   the cache folder and insert a fake gmail log in form? What should the permissions
   be on this folder?
 * I have wp-fastest cache installed on several websites. Should I be worried about
   this redirect on all of the sites?

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 *  Plugin Author [Emre Vona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emrevona/)
 * (@emrevona)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12066787)
 * the folder should be 755. but the problem is not about the permission I guess.
   The hacker is in your site I think.
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12066936)
 * I’ve scoured and scanned and that was the only malware. Wordfence reports details
   of hacking attempts, failed log ins etc.
 *  Plugin Author [Emre Vona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emrevona/)
 * (@emrevona)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12068700)
 * I have no idea.
 *  [jonbartlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonbartlow/)
 * (@jonbartlow)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12099758)
 * [@maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/) I am not sure 
   if you resolved this entirely but hopefully you were able to find any malicious
   files and remove them, while also changing all account passwords to your website
   including hosting, wordpress, etc.
 * Personally I see many attacks daily on sites for brute force and sql injection
   that I would not be concerned about if Wordfence is not finding any new issues
   with files on your server, similar to the webcache it flagged. However I know
   Wordfence has flagged the wp fastest cache for me before and I personally clicked
   to ignored it thinking it was normal, and have not had any issues after doing
   so. Though if you really found some sort of added directory/folder with some 
   sort of redirect or form then that is a cause of concern. I better do a review
   of the sites I manage, that uses both plugins, just to be safe.
 *  Plugin Author [Emre Vona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emrevona/)
 * (@emrevona)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12100509)
 * I recommend you to set up wp again. even you can change the hosting provider.
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12104426)
 * Thanks for the responses. I’ll be keeping an eye on the site. I do believe that
   this is a false positive in Wordfence. I examined the file closely because it
   was generated by WP Fastest Cache again after being deleted once and the cache
   cleared. It was a gmail icon in the media library. Apparently an index.html file
   was generated for this image file. Does the plug-in generate html files for each
   image?
 *  Plugin Author [Emre Vona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emrevona/)
 * (@emrevona)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12109022)
 * wpfc does not create an index.html for any image.
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12115568)
 * Thank you – I’ll investigate further.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-wp-content-cache/#post-12115568)
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