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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.

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Hacked Site Recovery

WordPress malware removal and hacked site recovery is the process of identifying and eradicating injected code, backdoors, and rogue admin accounts from a compromised WordPress installation, then removing the domain from security blacklists. It covers both the immediate forensic cleanup and the structural changes needed to prevent re-infection. For sites with recurring compromise history, recovery includes a migration pathway to headless architecture that removes the PHP execution layer from public reach.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Google Safe Browsing has flagged your domain and organic traffic has collapsed overnight while you have no clear picture of what was injected or when.
Risk: Every hour the flag stays active, browsers warn away visitors, ad accounts get suspended, and the reputational damage compounds in ways that outlast the technical fix.
You cleaned the site once before -- or paid someone to -- and it was reinfected within weeks because the original entry point was never identified and closed.
Risk: Repeat infections signal to Google and hosting providers that the site is persistently compromised, increasing the likelihood of permanent delisting or account termination.
Your WordPress installation runs dozens of plugins with no active update policy, giving attackers a documented catalogue of exploitable vulnerabilities updated daily on public CVE feeds.
Risk: A single unpatched plugin can hand an attacker persistent access, meaning cleaning the site without migrating or hardening the stack leaves the same door open for the next automated scan.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Google Safe Browsing Delisting

We prepare and submit a formal review request to Google Search Console after cleanup, monitor the delisting status, and confirm removal from the Safe Browsing API before closing the engagement.

Blacklist and AV Vendor Removal

Beyond Google, we submit delisting requests to McAfee WebAdvisor, Norton Safe Web, Sucuri, and other major reputation databases that independently flag compromised domains.

Post-Incident Audit Trail

We deliver a written post-mortem documenting the infection vector, affected files, timeline of changes, and every remediation action taken -- suitable for internal records or client disclosure obligations.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Forensic File and Database Scan

We diff all core WordPress files against the official checksums, scan the database for injected JavaScript and encoded payloads, and inspect server logs to trace the original entry point -- not just the visible symptoms.

Backdoor and Rogue Account Elimination

Injected backdoors frequently survive surface-level cleanups because they hide in upload directories, mu-plugins, or obfuscated theme files. We audit every executable path and revoke unauthorized admin and FTP credentials before declaring the site clean.

Vulnerability Patching and Hardening

After cleanup we patch or replace the compromised plugin or theme, enforce file permission standards, disable PHP execution in writable directories, and configure a web application firewall rule set calibrated to your specific attack pattern.

Headless Migration to Next.js or Astro

For clients who cannot risk another incident, we scope and execute a migration from WordPress to a headless front end built in Next.js or Astro, reducing the public attack surface to a static or server-rendered front end with WordPress moved behind a private API boundary or replaced entirely.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

WordfenceSucuriWP-CLINext.jsAstroVercelCloudflare WAF

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Intake and Access

Day 1

You provide hosting credentials, Search Console access, and any prior incident notes. We confirm scope, set a response SLA, and begin log and file collection within the hour. No questionnaires, no sales calls first.

02

Forensic Cleanup and Hardening

1-3 days

We remove all malicious code, close the identified entry point, rotate credentials, and apply firewall and permission hardening. A staging verification confirms clean scan results before the site is returned to production.

03

Blacklist Delisting and Monitoring

3-7 days

We submit delisting requests to all major reputation services, monitor confirmation status, and run follow-up scans at 48 and 96 hours to verify no re-infection before issuing the post-mortem report.

04

Headless Migration Scoping and Build

3-6 weeks

For clients proceeding to migration, we audit content structure, agree on a Next.js or Astro architecture, and execute a phased build with content parity and redirect mapping validated before DNS cutover.

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Frequently Asked Questions

We start emergency triage within 4 hours of engagement. First priority is containment -- revoking compromised credentials, taking forensic backups, and stopping active threats. Full malware removal typically wraps up within 24 hours. Blacklist delisting takes another 1-3 days depending on the vendor.
Reinfection happens when backdoors get missed or the original attack vector stays open. Hackers don't plant one backdoor -- they plant several. Hidden admin accounts, cron jobs, mu-plugin files, PHP files buried in the uploads directory. A thorough cleanup has to find all of them. If your site keeps getting hit, the real answer is removing the WordPress attack surface entirely through headless migration.
Wordfence runs as a WordPress plugin with a built-in firewall and file scanner. Sucuri offers server-side scanning and a cloud-based WAF that sits in front of your site. We use both during cleanup -- Wordfence for deep file-level analysis, Sucuri for external monitoring and DNS-level protection. Neither one alone is enough for a proper remediation.
After malware removal, we submit a review request through Google Search Console. Google re-crawls your site and verifies the malware is gone -- usually within 24-72 hours. We also submit removal requests to Norton Safe Web, McAfee SiteAdvisor, and any other vendors flagging your domain, then watch each one until it's fully cleared.
In a headless setup, WordPress runs behind a firewall as a content API -- never exposed to the public internet. Visitors hit a static or server-rendered frontend built in Next.js or Astro. No PHP execution on the frontend means no plugin vulnerabilities, no brute-force login attacks, no file injection vectors. The attack surface drops to essentially zero.
During cleanup, the priority is getting Google's security warnings removed fast -- those warnings destroy click-through rates far more than any cleanup downtime will. For headless migrations, we implement proper 301 redirects, preserve URL structures, carry over all metadata, and submit updated sitemaps. Most sites see ranking improvements within 4-6 weeks, mostly from better Core Web Vitals scores.
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