Why is this cheaper than Sucuri or MalCare?

Sucuri's cheapest emergency cleanup runs about $199.99, and MalCare bundles its one-time cleanup into a $249/year plugin subscription. Both are good products, but you're paying for a yearly plan when you usually just need the fix, once. Our WordPress Malware Removal is a flat $59, one-time, no subscription attached, because most people asking "is my WordPress site hacked" just want it fixed today.

Will I lose my content, posts or WooCommerce orders?

No. Cleanup removes malicious files and injected code, it does not touch your posts, pages, media, or store/order data. A full site backup is taken before any changes as standard practice.

Do you fix a Google Safe Browsing or "this site may be hacked" warning?

Yes. Once the site is clean, we submit the required review requests to Google Search Console, Norton Safe Web and other blacklist authorities so the warning is lifted, not just the malware removed.

Is this compatible with WooCommerce, Elementor, or my specific theme?

Yes. The process works on any WordPress install regardless of page builder, theme or plugin stack, WooCommerce stores included. We scan and clean around your existing setup rather than requiring a rebuild.

My scanner keeps flagging the same malware after I clean it myself, why?

Because the malware was never the real problem, the way the attacker got in was. If a leaked wp-admin password, a nulled plugin, or a planted admin account is left untouched, a plugin-level clean buys you a few days before the same attacker walks back in through the same door. Every plan here includes full credential rotation, not just file removal — see our real cleanup case studies for what this looks like in practice.

Do I need to move hosting to TOSHOST for this?

No. We clean and harden WordPress sites wherever they're hosted, including on another provider. If you'd rather move to a hardened, monitored environment afterward, we can help with that too, but it's never a requirement.

What if the whole hosting account or server is compromised, not just WordPress?

That's what the Full Account & Server Cleanup and Emergency Response tiers below are for, or see our general malware removal page if you're running Laravel or another stack alongside WordPress.

Flat $59, one-time, no subscription

WordPress Malware Removal, done right, from $59.

Q: Can nulled or pirated themes/plugins really be the cause?

Very often, yes. A cracked copy of a premium plugin or theme downloaded outside the official WordPress.org or vendor marketplace is one of the most common backdoor delivery methods we see in real cleanups. We'll identify and remove it as part of the scan, and tell you exactly what it was.

Hacked, blacklisted, redirecting to spam, or your host just suspended the account? We remove the malware, close the door it came through, and rotate every credential it could have touched, for a flat $59, not a $200+/year plugin subscription.

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Not sure if you're infected?

Signs your WordPress site has malware

WordPress malware doesn't always announce itself. These are the symptoms that actually show up in the sites we clean.

Redirects to spam or ads

Visitors, or you, land on a pharma, gambling or ad-injection site instead of your homepage, sometimes only on mobile or only from a Google search click.

A browser or Google warning

Chrome shows "This site may be hacked" or "Deceptive site ahead", or Search Console flags a Security Issue you never triggered yourself.

An admin user you didn't create

A new user in Users → All Users, usually with an Administrator role, that nobody on your team added.

Your host suspended the account

A "resource abuse" or "malware detected" suspension notice, often the first sign the site owner sees, well after the infection started.

Site sending spam email

Your SMTP quota is suddenly maxed out, or your domain lands on an email blacklist, from a compromised contact form or mailer script.

Unfamiliar files or slow performance

Strange .php files in wp-content/uploads, unexplained CPU spikes from cron-triggered scripts, or search results showing spammy foreign-language keywords for your domain.

Root causes

Why WordPress sites get hacked

WordPress powers a huge share of the web, which makes it the biggest target, not the least secure platform. These four causes account for most of the infections we see.

Outdated or vulnerable plugins

91% of WordPress vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025 were in third-party plugins, not WordPress core, and exploits are often weaponized within hours of disclosure.

Nulled or pirated themes/plugins

A "free" premium theme or plugin downloaded outside the official marketplace is one of the most common backdoor delivery methods we see, the malware ships inside the download.

Weak or reused wp-admin passwords

Credential-stuffing and brute-force bots try leaked password lists against wp-login.php around the clock; a reused password from another breach is an open door.

XML-RPC and REST API abuse

xmlrpc.php's multicall feature lets an attacker try thousands of password combinations in a single request, and outdated REST endpoints have shipped real privilege-escalation bugs.

The reinfection problem

Why WordPress sites keep getting hacked again

In real incidents we've handled, the pattern is always the same: malware gets removed, but the reason the attacker got in, a leaked credential, a nulled plugin, a planted admin account, gets left untouched. Weeks later, it happens again, on the same WordPress install.

Untouched wp-admin credentials

The most common cause of reinfection we see: the original leaked wp-admin password or database credential was never rotated. Removing malware without rotating credentials is like changing the locks but handing over a copy of the new key.

No brute-force protection

We've cleaned sites with months-long brute-force attempts against wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php that nobody noticed. A cleanup that doesn't add rate limiting isn't a fix, it's a pause.

A planted admin account

A full Users audit has turned up Administrator accounts under innocuous-looking names, left behind from an earlier compromise. Attackers don't always come back through the same plugin they used the first time.

These patterns are drawn from real incidents our team has handled — read the anonymized case studies.

How it works

Seven steps, not just a plugin scan and a wipe

Removing the visible malware is where most cheap cleanups stop. This is the full process every WordPress engagement follows, in order, so the same attacker can't just walk back in.

Triage

We confirm the scope in the first hour: is it just the WordPress install, the whole hosting account, or root-level server access? That scope decides everything that follows.

Forensic scan

Every malicious file, backdoor and unauthorized admin account gets identified across WordPress core, every plugin, every theme and the uploads directory, not just the one signature a plugin scanner flagged.

Clean or rebuild

Surface-level infections get cleaned in place, core and plugin files restored from clean originals. Root-level or rootkit-level compromises get rebuilt from a clean base instead.

Full credential rotation

wp-admin passwords, database credentials, SFTP/SSH and hosting-panel logins, all rotated at the same time as cleanup, not after. This is the step most cheap cleanups skip.

Hardening

Firewall rules, login rate limiting, and XML-RPC/REST restrictions where appropriate, so the same door the attacker used doesn't open twice.

Backup verification

Confirmed, tested, off-site backups, so a future incident, or a dying disk, isn't a total-loss event for your content.

Reinfection monitoring

We don't disappear after cleanup. Your site is watched for reinfection signals, new admin users, file changes, outbound spam, for a defined period on every plan.

Pricing

WordPress Malware Removal, flat $59

No $200-$250/year subscription like Sucuri or MalCare, just a flat fee for the fix. Every tier includes credential rotation, hardening and reinfection monitoring, not just file removal.