Found +100 articles written in my wordpress site

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Hello BHW,
I recently noticed that my wordpress site have more than 100 news articles written but not by me!
Each article of them contain some links redirecting to some other blogs, Is that mean that someone have my admin password and he is doing that? And what should I do?
Thanks
 
It's funny that you have no clue how they ended up there. You should definitely look into this.
 
Did you set up some kind of propagator that links to other news sites or news blogs? or a plugin that does this?

If not, you need to check your security logs, etc. and see if someone logged in and did all that (It doesn't make sense why they would though instead of just messing up your site)
 
Hello BHW,
I recently noticed that my wordpress site have more than 100 news articles written but not by me!
Each article of them contain some links redirecting to some other blogs, Is that mean that someone have my admin password and he is doing that? And what should I do?
Thanks
Your site as been hacked, prob due to nulled theme or plugin. Are you using copy of a paid theme?

Going to be difficult to cleanup as usually you will get a Google manual penalty (even though its not your fault) and have to start again with a new site.

My advice is dont use any nulled themes or plugin in future.
 
Yes I am using some nulled plugins! Are they the reasons.?
 
Yeah as mentioned above your site most likely got hacked.
If you use nulled plugins or themes, that's probably the reason you were voulnerable. It could also be a problem if you didn't update your plugins or theme.

Now it's all about damage control.
Do the following:

  1. Delete any nulled plugins or themes
  2. Delete any plugins or themes you didn't add yourself
  3. Update any plugins or themes that are out of date
  4. Add the Malcare Plugin, run a scan and follow the instructions. (Remove everything in regards to malware/viruses you can find).
  5. Add the Wordfence Plugin, run a scan and follow the instructions. (Remove everything in regards to malware/viruses you can find). Select the highest security settings for now (use google if you're not familiar with wordfence).
  6. Add the wps hide login plugin and change the login-site
  7. Change your password & delete any users you didn't create yourself
  8. Delete any posts you didn't write.
Depending on your host you might be able to check which IP adresses accessed your sites dashboard. If you can find the IP adress of the hacker, add it to the block list in word-fence (This is just an additional measure, it won't really protect you for good since you can use a proxy or vpn).

Now even after this, it is totally possible that your site still can be accessed by the hackers. If you really wanna clean out your site for sure, you should use a paid service because they have way more experience than any blackhatworld or youtube guide you will find. (Wordfence & Sucuri offer cleanups for hacked sites).

Before you use a paid service however, you should check your rankings, especially recent posts. If you have disappeared for keywords where you ranked relatively high (1st till 3rd result) then you most likely got penalized (if those links are too spammy / contain viruses/malware).
 
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Your site as been hacked, prob due to nulled theme or plugin. Are you using copy of a paid theme?

Going to be difficult to cleanup as usually you will get a Google manual penalty (even though its not your fault) and have to start again with a new site.

My advice is dont use any nulled themes or plugin in future.
Even @Festinger stuff? I'm always confused by this here because everyone recommends his stuff but whenever someone is hacked the replies are " is the theme nulled?" Its confusing lol
 
Even @Festinger stuff? I'm always confused by this here because everyone recommends his stuff but whenever someone is hacked the replies are " is the theme nulled?" Its confusing lol

+1 would like to know about @Festinger stuff too
I saw few of nulled theme from his vault is nulled by GANJA PARKER
 
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