Find The Most Complex Hacks With Our Malware Scanner For WordPress
We will find malware wherever it is hidden. It may be a year-old malware
or a complex new hack. We will find them all.
Common Signs Of A WordPress Hack
12 common symptoms that mean you should run a scan
Visitors land on your site and get pushed to a spam, pharma, or adult site. The redirect hides from logged-in admins — visitors see it, you don’t.
Attackers replace your homepage with their own content — a message, image, or claim. It reappears after cleanup if the backdoor isn’t found first.
A “Deceptive site ahead” warning blocks visitors before they reach you. By the time Google flags it, the infection has usually been live for weeks.
Thousands of pages stuffed with pharma or casino keywords are created on your domain. Google indexes them, then penalises your whole site’s rankings.
Hidden cryptominers and malicious cron jobs consume server resources around the clock. Unexplained slowdowns with no traffic spike are an early signal.
Customers receive spam or phishing emails sent from your address. Your email reputation tanks and legitimate emails start landing in junk folders.
Unexpected ads or popups appear to visitors but not to you. Adware injections often target mobile visitors or first-time sessions — invisible to logged-in admins.
Fake login or payment pages hosted on your domain steal customer credentials. Usually hidden from WP admin but visible in the file system.
New plugins you don’t remember installing, users you didn’t add, or pages with content you never wrote. Small unexplained changes in your dashboard are often the first visible sign.
Your admin credentials stop working with no explanation. Attackers change passwords and create their own accounts immediately after gaining access.
A sudden surge of visitors from unusual countries with zero time on site. Could be a bot attack, could be malware quietly redirecting traffic through your domain.
Pages that loaded fine yesterday now show blank screens, PHP errors, or broken layouts. Corrupted files from a hack are one of the most common causes.
Most Hacks Don’t Even Show Signs
WordPress hacks stay hidden for months, often becoming visible only after plugin and theme vulnerabilities have already caused damage.
Of WordPress hacks are only uncovered after they cause damage.
Of WordPress hacks start in plugins and themes — code that web hosts never protect.
Average exposure window before a hack becomes visible.
More vulnerabilities were exploited in 2025 compared to the year before.
Of vulnerabilities have no patch available when they go public.
Find Malware Wherever It’s Hidden
One disclosure, every affected site protected — automatically, across your whole portfolio.
Scan WordPress files, folders, uploads, and database tables to find malware that other scanners miss.
Manage every site from one dashboard, even when an individual site is hacked, suspended, or unreachable.
Run scans on WP Remote’s servers instead of hosting servers, so daily checks don’t slow down live websites.
Track plugin changes, file edits, login attempts, user actions, and security events across all sites.
Each Scan Has 3 Unique Layers
Each layer catches a different type of threat — nothing missed
Compares every file against a continuously updated database of known malware patterns — backdoors, shells, injected scripts, SEO spam. Same detection method as Wordfence, without the server load penalty.
Verifies WordPress core, plugin, and theme files against official repository checksums — even one injected line gets flagged. Catches supply chain attacks without a new signature.
Catches what signatures can’t — AI-generated code, database-resident payloads, conditional scripts that only fire for specific visitors. Detects by what code does, not what it looks like.
How it works
Get protected in minutes. No complicated setup. No configuration headaches.
Install the plugin
Download WP Remote and connect your site from the dashboard — no configuration required.
First scan runs immediately
WP Remote starts a deep scan immediately. Results in your dashboard within minutes.
Daily scans run automatically
WP Remote keeps scanning your site every day, with results updated automatically in your dashboard.
Why Choose WP Remote?
See how WP Remote’s detection layer compares across the places malware actually hides.
| Detection Layer | WP Remote | Sucuri | Wordfence |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress core files The foundational WordPress files attackers modify to embed persistent backdoors invisible to site owners. | |||
| Free plugin & theme files Publicly available code from the WordPress repository, the most common entry point for malware. | |||
| wp-content or uploads folder Where user-uploaded files live — hackers routinely hide executable PHP scripts disguised as images here. | |||
| Posts, comments & options table Database records where redirect hacks and malicious URLs are injected to silently hijack visitor traffic. | |||
| Supply chain modifications Malware introduced through a compromised plugin or theme in the official WordPress repository itself. | |||
| Premium & non-repo plugin/theme files Paid or custom plugins and themes not on WordPress.org, invisible to scanners that rely on repository comparison. | |||
| Custom database tables Third-party plugin tables outside WordPress core, a common hiding spot for malware that most scanners never check. | |||
| Scheduled crons Background tasks that attackers abuse to silently re-inject malware after every cleanup attempt. | |||
| Cloaked malware Malware that only activates for real visitors, staying invisible to logged-in admins and server-side scanners. | |||
| Unknown malware Malware variants too new to have known signatures, requiring behavioural detection rather than pattern matching. | |||
| Remote scan (no server load) The scan runs on external servers, so your site’s performance is completely unaffected during every scan. |
Hover over the info icons to see what each detection layer means.
Trusted By Experts Globally
“I was on the beach with my family when WP Remote notified me of a plugin vulnerability across 50 of my sites. With one click on my smartphone, all sites were fixed within minutes.”
“I had been running iThemes, WordFence & Sucuri, but they kept getting hacked. Then I installed WP Remote, which quickly found the malware and cleaned up the entire site.”
“WP Remote’s one-click cleanup is exactly what I needed. Instead of waiting, guessing, or dealing with a complicated manual cleanup, I could clean the site quickly and get back to work.”
Trusted by over 200,000+ websites across 120 Countries
Protecting Over 300,000 Sites Already
Detection rates, cleanup speeds, false positive rates — all best-in-class.
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Catches All Malware Variations
Our AI analysis workflow catches all malware variants by learning from millions of real infections. If it exists in the WordPress wild, our scanner has been trained on it.
Exploits & Injections
- Brute force attacks
- SQL injection hack
- XSS (cross-site scripting) hack
- RevSlider hack
- TimThumb hack
- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
- Local file inclusion (LFI) exploit
- Remote file inclusion (RFI) exploit
- PHP object injection
- Nulled plugin and theme backdoors
- XML-RPC brute force
SEO & Spam
- Japanese keyword hack
- Pharma hack
- SEO spam hack
- WordPress spam link injections
- WordPress theme hack
- WordPress deface hack
- Gambling and casino spam injection
- Doorway page spam
- Hidden text and cloaked content
- Comment spam injection
Backdoors & Access
- Backdoor hack
- WP-VCD hack
- Adminer.php hack
- WP-Feed.php & WP-Tmp.php hack
- Hidden admin accounts
- Web shells
- .htaccess backdoor
- Plugin and theme editor backdoor
- Cron job malware
Redirects & Phishing
Fraud & Blacklisting
- Credit card skimmers
- Coinhive hack
- Google Blacklist hack
- Google Adwords hack
- Affiliate fraud and cookie stuffing
- McAfee SiteAdvisor blacklist warning
The 3 Steps After Scanning
Whatever the scan finds, the next step is clear and handled inside WP Remote.
Nothing Found
You get a timestamped clean report showing real scan depth — files checked, database tables read, every layer covered. Clean means we looked everywhere, not just somewhere.
Set up scanning →One-click Cleanup
Each finding is listed by severity, location, and what to do next. One-click cleanup is available on Protect and Repair, with a safety check before anything’s removed.
See cleanup workflow →Emergency Support
If your website is blacklisted by Google or suspended by your web host, our experts help you with recovery steps.
Contact emergency team →Frequently Asked Questions
Under 5 minutes per site. Install the WP Remote plugin, connect the site, you’re done. First scan runs immediately after sync. For bulk onboarding from ManageWP or MainWP, migration tools handle the transition.
No. Scanning runs entirely off-server on WP Remote’s infrastructure — zero CPU, memory, or I/O load on your clients’ hosting. This is the core architectural difference from on-server scanners like Wordfence.
File-based malware (backdoors, shells, injected scripts), database-resident infections (SEO spam, redirect injections, wp_options manipulation), modified core files, fake plugins, cron job payloads, and AI-generated variants that mimic legitimate code. Behavioural analysis catches what signatures can’t.
Wordfence does solid signature-based detection. Two things change at agency scale: Wordfence runs every scan on your client’s server — 50+ sites means 50+ simultaneous resource loads. And Wordfence relies on signatures — WP Remote adds integrity checks and behavioural analysis for variants signatures miss. Many agencies run both.
ManageWP uses Sucuri for scanning — an external scanner that can’t read files or database. In testing, ManageWP’s scanner missed basic malware that WP Remote detected and cleaned. Bundling a surface-level scanner into a management dashboard doesn’t make the scanner deeper.
The dashboard shows partial status — no fake green checkmarks. Open a ticket and the security team handles it manually. Included in the plan. No per-site cleanup fees, no surprise invoices after a bad week.
Yes. Security reports are branded with your agency’s identity and sent automatically on your schedule. Clients see scan results, threats blocked, and cleanups completed — under your brand, not ours.
It’s from our internal benchmark — 50 modern infections including AI-generated variants, tested against WP Remote, Wordfence, and Sucuri. We don’t call it independent. The methodology is published so you can evaluate the test yourself.
No. The scanner catches malware that’s already on the site. Updates close the vulnerability that let it in. Virtual patching covers the gap between disclosure and safe update. The three work together: patch blocks the exploit, scanner catches what got past, updates are the permanent fix.
Yes — any host. WP Remote is portable across hosting environments. If a client migrates, protection migrates with them.
