WordPress Security Audit

WordPress security audit

WordPress gets broken into more often than other systems — not because it is worse, but because it is everywhere: scanners work through known plugin vulnerabilities across millions of sites every day. An audit shows how ready your site is for that background pressure.

What I check

• Plugins and themes: versions, known vulnerabilities, abandoned extensions. Deactivated ones are dangerous too — the code stays on the server.
• Pirated builds. They are the most frequent carriers of backdoors.
• Access: administrators, password strength, brute-force protection, two-factor authentication.
• Files: permissions, PHP execution in the uploads directory, service files reachable from outside.
• Database: hidden administrators, suspicious scheduled tasks, foreign code in settings.
• Server: PHP version, configuration, isolation from neighbouring sites on shared hosting.
• Traces of presence: modified core files, unknown files in system directories.

What you receive

A report split into critical, important and desirable. Every item comes with an explanation of what it threatens on your specific site and what exactly to do about it. I can carry out the fixes or hand them to your developer.

When an audit is not enough

If the site is already behaving oddly — redirects, unknown pages in search, visitor complaints — you need remediation rather than an audit. An audit shows risks; it does not remove the consequences of an infection that is already present.