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my traffic hijacked by auto-redirecting to another site

by visimedia
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when I tried to open one of my wp site, it turned out it's being hijacked. I mean, it redirected to another url.

It's my 3 or 4 times like this, do you know how to avoid things like this/?
It should be things related to security.

Now I just told my hosting company to restore the backup website files just before it had been hijacked.
#autoredirecting #hijacked #site #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author StanHyeck
    Originally Posted by visimedia View Post

    when I tried to open one of my wp site, it turned out it's being hijacked. I mean, it redirected to another url.

    It's my 3 or 4 times like this, do you know how to avoid things like this/?
    It should be things related to security.

    Now I just told my hosting company to restore the backup website files just before it had been hijacked.
    The hack you're talking about shouldn't be possible anymore with the newest version of WP. Are you keeping WP updated?

    If it really is WP being hacked and redirected, you need to find out WHERE its happening and reporting the issue so that the hole can be patched.

    Are you sure the real issue isn't that your hosting is being hacked and a new index.php is being written?

    Think about changing the password on your hosting account. If you have a shared hosting plan then contact support and ask them to do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author crams
      I've heard that some free theme/plugin would cause this.

      try deactivating all plugings and use a default theme. then activate one plugin at a time until you see it act up.
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    At the bare minimum, add this WP plugin:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

    and scan your site. See what is discovered.

    Also, Nathan Briggs is a super WP security person as well.
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