MalCare Security Blog
Practical WordPress security guides from the MalCare team: cleaning hacked sites, hardening WordPress, and choosing the right tools.
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What are the Different Types of Essential Website Logs?
Learn which website logs matter, what they reveal, and how logs help troubleshoot security and WordPress activity.
Ultimate Guide To WordPress User Enumeration: Strengthen Your Site’s Security
Learn how WordPress user enumeration exposes usernames, how attackers use the data, and how to block enumeration across logins, archives, and APIs.
Social Engineering Content Detected: Easy Fix
Your inbox has an email that caught your attention. It’s from Google but different from their other emails about how well your traffic is doing. Instead, it
HTTP Error 500 WordPress: Causes And Fixes
Learn effective ways to resolve HTTP Error 500 WordPress issues, from debugging techniques to addressing theme conflicts and restoring corrupted files, ensuring your site runs smoothly.
MalCare Protects Against Critical Vulnerabilities in Ultimate Membership Pro Plugin
Learn how two critical Ultimate Membership Pro vulnerabilities enabled privilege escalation and PHP object injection, and how to protect your site.
A Guide to WordPress File Integrity Monitoring
This is where WordPress file integrity monitoring (FIM) comes in. FIM helps keep your website safe by constantly watching over your files. It checks to make
Beginner’s Guide to Understanding WordPress File Structure & Database
Knowing the WordPress file structure will help you understand how WordPress works. These informations are handy for anyone running WP sites.
What Are Some Website Security Best Practices?
Follow practical website security best practices for WordPress, including updates, backups, access controls, scans, and monitoring.
MalCare Proactively Blocks Remote Code Execution Exploits in WPML Plugin
On June 19th, 2024, a critical security flaw was discovered in the WPML WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to 4.6.12. This vulnerability is severe,
How to Prevent Hacks Through Malicious Plugin Slug Changes with MalCare
Learn how malicious WordPress plugin slug changes can hide updates and how MalCare alerts you before the weakness becomes an attack path.
MalCare’s Atomic Security Thwarts Attacks Exploiting Critical Yoast SEO XSS Vulnerability
A serious cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the Yoast SEO plugin, where attackers can compromise a website if a site
MalCare Blocks Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks Plugin
Review the critical Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks privilege-escalation flaw, affected versions, technical details, and protection steps.