WordPress has many admirers and many opponents, the main argument of which – the platform is too vulnerable to hacking, it is constantly attacked by hackers and bots.
The share of justice in their opinion is – the WordPress engine really has many shortcomings, which are used by attackers. The company Sucuri said that in the third quarter of 2016, 74% of all cases of vulnerability and infection of sites occurred on sites with CMS WordPress.
After reading such news, many people start to ask questions in their heads: “Is this platform safe? Should I use it on my website? “Although in fact you need to think about something else – what can you do to make your site more secure?
You can only approach this task in a complex way: you need to think about the firewall that protects, including antivirus plug-ins, and so on. However, you should think about the possibilities of protection and outside of WordPress – online scanners can find those gaps in your site that you did not even know about.
Below I will tell you about 7 useful online services – scanners, which will help to determine if on your site:
Link: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan/
This scanner is sharpened specially for search of problem elements on the WP site. It analyzes themes and plug-ins, as well as other site elements that can contain malicious code.
Free analysis includes checks:
Link : https://scanurl.net/
This is a fairly simple scanner that will tell you about such things:
Additionally, the scanner provides links to resources with other security scanners.
Link: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/
This online scanner will not give you detailed information, but on the whole it will analyze the following:
Sucuri is a quality scanner that will find and display information about possible problems.
Link : https://www.siteguarding.com/en/sitecheck
SiteGuarding.com works in much the same way as the rest of the scanners on this list. But it’s worthwhile to note a convenient and cute display of scan results.
Even a novice WordPress user will be able to figure out how to use this tool, and where the problem sites of the site are.
What exactly will SiteGuarding.com show:
Link: https://app.upguard.com/webscan
Online scanner from UpGuard is worth highlighting, if only because it shows a security analysis in the format of gaming. After scanning, you will receive a certain number of points, depending on the following factors:
Link: https://wpneuron.com/wordpress-vulnerability-scanner/
This scanner is designed specifically for sites that work on WordPress. The plugins and themes of your site are scanned, so if it makes sense to use it, if it seems to you that there may be some problems in these elements. Traditionally, the scanner will also tell you whether your version of WordPress is up-to-date, whether everything is good with robots.txt, and about all the oddities that will notice on your site (but the basic information will still be about plug-ins and themes).
Link: https://wprecon.com/
In general, this scanner is similar to Hacker Target WordPress Security Scan (which went under number one), but there are three key differences. In addition to basic information, the scanner also provides data on:
This information will help to notice and fix any problems much quicker, which you would not even have guessed otherwise.
Checking the vulnerabilities and possible problems on the site is a regular procedure that should be performed at least once a month, but more often, as hacking can bring you a lot of problems.
At the end of the article, I want to give some general advice on how to protect my site (they may seem trite to experienced users, but beginners will be useful).