Yes scan your wordpress website before some one hack your website and now a days wordpress is the most targeted cms in the world and the widely used cms because of its great futures and pro SEO advantage.
Now a days hackers are targeting wordpress websites from the methods such as :-
- Vulnerable 3rd Party Plugins
- Vulnerable Themes
- Vulnerable shared Web Hosting server
- Outdated CMS
- 0day
Things Need to keep in mind
- Always Try to chose the best web hosting server which provide good and secured hosting like ipage , hostgator and other services which provide best and secured web hosting.
- Always Keep Your wordpress website up to date and never use the old wordpress cms version.
- Never use the theme which is vulnerable to exploits
- Always update your plugins to newer version
- keep in touch with the world of hacking and 0day exploits of wordpress.
Scan Your Wordpress website
To scan your wordpress website the best way i recommend every one is to use wpscan tool to scan the website from each and every angle.
#wpscan scans the website for vulnerabilities , 0day exploits , outdated cms , vulnerable themes , vulnerable plugins , and other vulnerabilities and to download wpscan click here.
Wp scan is a pre-loaded tool in Kali Linux or backtrack Linux and works on linux because it is codded in ruby and if you are using Kali Linux just open the terminal and type the below command.
wpscan -u www.website.com -eNow in this command
- " -u " is the url of the wordpress website
- " -e " stands for Enumerate mean to scan website from every angle ( plugins,0day,themes,etc)
After the scan will be started and this will give you the results by scanning everything one by one and the vulnerable modules would be in the red text in result while the safe modules would be in the green result and also this will give you references to the exploits from different exploits database websites of which your website is vulnerable.
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