How to resolve sitemap.xml with some unwanted weird urls?

  • Resolved joshibhargav

    (@joshibhargav)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    Recently, one of our website get hacked (guess so). and we come across with various technical issues like our Sitemap.xml don’t work properly and site is not getting indexed (still not).

    We had tried all best possible solutions for website security and used similar plugin to prevent the same thing again.

    now how to resolve this some unwanted urls are getting index check –

    site:hitechbpo.com

    where you can can see various chinese / japanese language pages are there followed by .games and similar domain are exist which is completely unwanted.

    so we have to create custom coded xml-sitemap

    and our own sitemap.xml is showing nofollow/noindex in GSC, so how to resolve this?

    another point which one is best practice to overcome with the same means

    By keeping same everything and try to find out issue or
    Delete everything from FTP and reconfigure and install evey plugin + WordPress?
    according to second thing, still there is one issue what if script exist in DataBase so once again our whole hard exercise is =0 means nothing.

    so how to overcome from this problem?

    Sorry in advance for too lengthy description of my problem but I need you to understand exact issue.

    Following are installed plugins in my website

    All In One SEO Pack
    Autoptimize
    Breadcrumb NavXT
    Classic Editor
    Collapsing Archives
    Contact Form 7
    Custom Permalinks
    Disqus for WordPress
    Edit Author Slug
    Email Subscribers & Newsletters
    Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
    Plugin Organizer
    Post Reading Progress
    Responsive Menu
    Shortcodes Ultimate
    Simple 301 Redirects
    SSL Insecure Content Fixer
    Tawk.to Live Chat
    Twenty20 Image Before-After
    WP User Avatar

    After Hack Installed
    Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Hardening
    Wordfence Security

    Thanks and Regards.

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  • Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    I’m afraid that we can’t provide support for your sitemap if you’re using a custom one. If you’ve been hacked and have security concerns, then you should probably hire a security professional to audit your website.

    stephanie6g

    (@stephanie6g)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello, i seem to have the exact same problem: my sitemap is not updating, and is showing chinese pages, we already installed defenses against this but nothing is happening.

    So we have this sitemap with chinese pages: https://en.miamipropiedadesenventa.com/sitemap.xml

    But if you add any other parameter like ?, it gives back the real sitemap:
    https://en.miamipropiedadesenventa.com/sitemap.xml?
    Can you please me?

    i have:
    Advanced custom fields
    all in one seo
    avada builder
    Avada Core
    Child Theme Generator
    Contact Form 7
    Contact Form 7 Datepicker
    Duplicate Post Page Menu & Custom Post Type
    Feedzy RSS Feeds Lite
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    Yoast Duplicate Post

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