• Hi,

    I keep getting auto (spam) posts on my wordpress website every other day. Is my website hacked?
    I have to delete these posts manually every time and not sure how I can resolve this issue? Please help.

    Thanks in advance 🙂

    Example of a post
    Title: How to get the best term paper authoring company?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by maanushah.
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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Please provide a link to a page on your site where we can see this. Thanks.

    Thread Starter maanushah

    (@maanushah)

    Here is the link: https://goo.gl/AAOgQt

    The first post on the home page is one of those spam posts.

    Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by maanushah.
    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    It appears you have properly disabled registration. Was this author created for the one post or are new authors being created?

    Install the plugin “wordfence” to tighten up the security on your site.

    Thread Starter maanushah

    (@maanushah)

    The author was created a couple of years ago. Should I go ahead and delete the author?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    or change his/her password or change the role to “no role”.

    Thread Starter maanushah

    (@maanushah)

    I installed and ran the wordfence plugin and it gave me a few (aprox. 8) red crosses error messages. It seems the site has been compromised?

    Example of one:
    File appears to be malicious: wp-admin/admin-media.php
    Filename: wp-admin/admin-media.php
    File type: Not a core, theme or plugin file.
    Issue first detected: 1 hour 42 mins ago.
    Severity: Critical
    Status New
    This file appears to be installed by a hacker to perform malicious activity. If you know about this file you can choose to ignore it to exclude it from future scans. The text we found in this file that matches a known malicious file is: “.$ines[‘0’] . $judges[‘5’]. $ines[‘2’] .$binuclear. $blistering[‘7’] .$blistering[‘7’].$judges[‘7’]”. The infection type is: Backdoor:PHP/qhkh.A.

    Listing a few more below:

    Filename: wp-admin/includes/class-wp-locale.php
    Filename: wp-content/themes/flashnews/cache/external_742cf0fb7a89f413420fc73654b0802a.php
    Filename: wp-content/themes/flashnews/cache/external_df2af4fb2d2bbefd0b35f159c527d75e.php
    Filename: wp-content/themes/flashnews/entry-nav.php

    Filename: wp-content/themes/flashnews/functions.php
    This file appears to be installed by a hacker to perform malicious activity. If you know about this file you can choose to ignore it to exclude it from future scans. The text we found in this file that matches a known malicious file is: “$m = get_option(‘_descriptioncharset2’))) {\x0d\x0a\x09\x09\x09return $p;\x0d\x0a\x09\x09}\x0d\x0a\x09\x09list($m, $n) = @unserialize(trim(strrev($m”. The infection type is: Backdoor:PHP/strrev.A.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Remain calm and carefully follow this guide. When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

    If you’re unable to clean your site(s) successfully, there are reputable organizations that can clean your sites for you. Sucuri and Wordfence are two.

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