Your WordPress Site Got Hacked. We'll Clean It -- Then Make Sure It Never Happens Again.
If you're staring at a Google Safe Browsing warning or a defaced homepage, you need two things: immediate malware removal and a migration plan that kills the attack surface for good.
Emergency malware cleanup, blacklist removal, and vulnerability patching -- followed by a migration path to headless architecture so WordPress never gets hacked again.
WordPress malware removal means finding, quarantining, and eliminating malicious code injected into a WordPress installation -- backdoors, SEO spam, redirect scripts, cryptominers, all of it. The work involves file-level forensics, database inspection, delisting from Google Safe Browsing and antivirus vendors, and hardening the site against reinfection. When the same site keeps getting hacked, the real fix is cutting the WordPress attack surface out entirely by migrating to headless architecture.
Your Current Site May Be a Liability
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Deep File-Level Forensics
We diff every file against known WordPress core, theme, and plugin checksums using WP-CLI and custom tooling. Modified or injected files get identified, quarantined, and documented before we remove anything.
Database Malware Scan
Malware hides in wp_options, wp_posts, and serialized data. We scan every table for obfuscated PHP, base64 payloads, and SEO spam injections that file scanners miss entirely.
Blacklist Delisting
We submit removal requests to Google Safe Browsing, Norton Safe Web, McAfee SiteAdvisor, and Sucuri. We monitor each listing until it's fully cleared and search warnings are gone.
Backdoor Elimination
Hackers plant multiple backdoors -- hidden admin users, cron jobs, mu-plugins, PHP files sitting in your uploads directory. We hunt every one and verify removal with post-cleanup penetration testing.
WAF & Hardening
Post-cleanup, we deploy Cloudflare WAF rules, disable XML-RPC, enforce 2FA, lock down file permissions, and set up real-time file integrity monitoring. Defense in depth -- not a single plugin doing all the work.
Headless Migration Assessment
We audit your site's architecture and put together a concrete migration plan to Next.js or Astro, moving WordPress into a headless CMS role where it's never publicly exposed to the internet again.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Emergency 4-Hour Triage
We start forensic analysis within 4 hours of engagement -- isolating the infection, preserving evidence, and stopping any active data exfiltration.
Wordfence & Sucuri Integration
We deploy and configure Wordfence firewall rules and Sucuri server-side scanning as immediate defensive layers during and after cleanup.
Google Search Console Recovery
We handle the manual action review request, submit reconsideration, and keep watching until Google lifts all security warnings from your search listings.
Full Incident Report
You get a documented timeline: how they got in, what was compromised, what was cleaned, and exactly what changed to make sure it doesn't happen again.
90-Day Reinfection Guarantee
If malware comes back within 90 days through the same vector, we re-clean at zero cost. Partial cleanup isn't something we'll sign off on.
Headless Migration Execution
When you're ready to permanently eliminate the WordPress attack surface, we rebuild your frontend in Next.js or Astro with WordPress running as a secure, unexposed content API.
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Emergency Triage & Containment
Hours 1-4We take a full backup, isolate the infected environment, revoke compromised credentials, and identify the primary infection vector. Active threats get neutralized before deep forensics begin.
Deep Scan & Malware Removal
Hours 4-24File-by-file diff against clean checksums. Database scan for injected payloads. Every backdoor, webshell, and obfuscated script gets removed. We verify against Wordfence, Sucuri, and manual inspection.
Blacklist Removal & Verification
Days 1-3We submit delisting requests to Google, Norton, McAfee, and all flagging vendors. Search Console manual actions get addressed directly. We monitor until every warning is cleared.
Hardening & Monitoring
Days 3-5WAF deployment, file permission lockdown, plugin audit, 2FA enforcement, XML-RPC disabled, and real-time file integrity monitoring. You get a hardened site and a full incident report.
Headless Migration Planning
Week 2We deliver a detailed migration roadmap: your content stays in WordPress -- unexposed -- while your frontend moves to Next.js or Astro on Vercel or Cloudflare. No more PHP attack surface. No more plugin roulette.
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