A  hacked website costs you readers, search engine rank and time and money.
Use these tips to help you find and clean a WordPress website from hacked code and malicious malware links inserted into the website code.

Wordpress hacking

WordPress vulnerabilities ; SQL injection, JavaScript insertion and.htaccess hacks are all common ways to alter the content on your WordPress website.Some hackers redirect users to another website, other hackers insert malicious links and some other hackers use the .htaccess file to steal Google rank. If you think you are hacked, here are some common sings to search for in your website code.

Check Your.htaccess File :

The .htaccess file is always in the root dlretory of your
WordPress site. The .htaccess file lets you control how the
server handles website requests such as Google crawler
access and URL redirections Hackers who gain access to the
.htaccess file insert a few lines of code that redirect
search englnes. The hacked code detects the “user
agent”value, which is passed from a web browser or
search engine to the WordPress server. If the user agent is
“Google,” the hacked .htaccess file redirects Google to
the hacked website. This hack 1s completely invisible to
your WordPress readers, and it only affects Google rank
The following code is an example of hacked .htaccess code:

RewriteCond %{HTT-REFERER} .*google.* [OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http//hackedsite.com/index.php
[R=301,L]

In the above example, if Googlebot crawlss the website, the (continue reading…)