Several sites attacked by leak in plugins

WordPress sites are often the target of attacks by malicious users.This often involves exploiting leaks in plug-ins that add malicious pieces of code to your website.Thanks to this piece of code, website visitors are redirected to malicious apps, help desk fraud or drug ads.

The plug-ins in question are Maintenance Mode, Yellow Pencil and Blog designer. However, this vulnerability has already been fixed for all three plug-ins.If you are using any of these plugins, it is recommended that you update them as soon as possible.

How do I keep everything up to date?

It is possible that you have not updated everything on your hosting.To update it, you first need to turn on write permissions in the file manager.You do this by clicking on the lock icon next to your wwwroot folder, then checking 'read' and 'write'.

Then go to your admin area, you will probably see a message that a new WordPress version is available.Click on update now and wait until this is done. After this your WordPress will be updated.If you want to update a plug-in you can do so on the plug-ins page.
There is also a possibility for Managed WordPress hosting
. Here everything is updated automatically.

How can I secure my website?

Besides regularly updating your website, there are other measures you can take to ensure that your website remains secure.You should also take into account your passwords, if they are too simple then a malicious user can easily get in.We have a Random Password Generator, so you always have a password that is difficult to guess.

If you do not make any changes to your website then it is best to turn off write permissions.This way no malicious files can be added to your hosting.
It is also important to always make a backup of your website. If it does go wrong you can always restore it within seconds.If you have any plug-ins installed that you don't use then it is also advisable to remove them.If the plug-in is still installed but not removed it can still be abused by malicious users.

If you have any further questions on this subject you can always see if one of our chat operators is available.If our chat operators are unavailable you can always submit a ticket to our helpdesk.