{"id":1587,"date":"2017-12-30T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2017-12-30T22:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T20:51:33","slug":"wordpress-site-hacked-one-way-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wordpress-site-hacked-one-way-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress site hacked? Here is one way to clear it up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing a hacked site has become easier with a tool we highly recommend every WordPress site should have called wordfence security. its free and can and should be installed via plugins in your WordPress dashboard.<br \/>\nInstall it via plugins<br \/>\nthen add the following code into a .htaccess file in your www or public_html folder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># BEGIN litespeed noabort<br \/>\n&lt;IfModule rewrite_module&gt;<br \/>\nRewriteEngine On<br \/>\nRewriteRule .* &#8211; [E=noabort:1]<br \/>\n&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<br \/>\n# END litespeed noabort<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once done log back into your WordPress Dashboard and run a full wordfence scan. If it finds anything you can choose to restore the original which should resolve the issue.<br \/>\nBasically, select Select Bulk Repair files and Repair them.<\/p>\n<p>For those that cannot be repaired check that the files are not critical ones and do a Bulk Delete if necessary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Always make a backup of your files before making changes. Recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, open up PHPMyAdmin and check your wp_users table and check if there is any user called Service. Delete this user. At times some users are created as a backdoor for Hackers as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1588 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hackeduserservice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1022\" height=\"175\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing a hacked site has become easier with a tool we highly recommend every WordPress site should have called wordfence security. its free and can and should be installed via&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-website-and-web-hosting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}