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Old 07-20-2016, 02:12 PM  
AdultKing
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Originally Posted by vvvvv View Post
Good luck.

You are going to have to backup the DB and then wipe the server. Then comb the DB for more exploits, and when clean, reinstall everything: wordpress, theme, plugins, uploads, then reconnect to the DB.
Actually all you need to do is quarantine the site, perform a remediation which includes removing backdoors and then re-instate the site after fixing the vulnerability that caused the problem in the first place.

My mainstream company owns a website security business, my team fix websites every single day and very rarely do we see a re-occurance of the same problem.
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