Has my WordPress site been hacked?

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Landen

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Hello everyone,
So today I was checking my page views on Google Analytics and I noticed a certain page/URL that I had never seen before. Whenever I try going to this URL, I get redirected to some essay writing service that I have no affiliation with.
Now I'm pretty sure someone has access to my website, possibly through a theme/plugin and they are maybe using it as a backlink to their website.

What do you guys think?
And what should I do to fix it? Whoever has access to my site has done nothing too serious but I want to stop them before anything bad happens.
 
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Keep an audit trail to monitor users and under the hood activity on WordPress. A good indicator of a hacked WordPress website is unusual user activity, such as creation of new users, existing users' password changes, user role changes, unapproved new content and modification of existing content
 
Go to google search for your site name and see what comes, can you login if yes install wordfence or malcare and see any file changes repair or clean them as far as I can see you’re not hacked
 
First check with your hosting provider for support and navigate to, from where the exact problem raised and act accordingly.
i Suggest immediate action to take, Change all password to your access points like FTP/SFTP, CPANEL, WP ADMIN, and MYSQL. For this use any password generator for long and unique passwod.
 
You have nothing to do. Contact hosting service. They will fix it for you.
 
Sometimes they are just spam referer they want you ( the webmaster) to see it and go to the link that way they get traffic, they do this for thousands of websites and almost all of them go to the link, they get rank and traffic for free and maybe someone will buy thier service too.

so you dont need to worry about it

if the link is generated from your domain website and then redirects , definatly check it out
 
If its on Wordpress
Install wordfence and Scan your Website
 
Is referrer spam.
Code: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034842?hl=en
 
Using any nulled themes or plugins on your site?
 
It is good you managed to identify that early. I would suggest you just remove the link if you can find it. But since this may be beyond hacking, consider reporting to your host and keep trackers for external links.
 
Okay yes your SITE HAS BEEN HACKED, this is the most common type of hack for Wordpress, best thing you can do to prevent is to disable direct file access unless its ssh ftp and ALWAYS UPDATE TO NEW wordpress.

Also remember 3 months before elections cyber attacks and hacks go up at leat 5 if not 10 fold. PM me as we just cleaned out 5 of our tier 2 sites with similar bs if you need help etc, also CHECK YOUR WEBMASTER MAKE SURE NO ONE HAS CHANGED YOUR LOCATION PREFRENCE NOR HAVE THEY ADDED THEMSELVES TO YOUR ACCOUNT its very easy actually to do that.
 
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