Site Hack- URL Redirecting - Support

Resolved Jiya Sweet
4 years, 4 months ago

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Hello,

I updated RankMath to the latest Update and next morning when I tried to visit my site, it was redirecting to the site letsmakeparty3-ga (not safe to open- trojans infected).

My homepage and Admin both URL were redirecting to that trojans site(Avast security gave alert & blocked it).

I contact my host support. They tried to check and do some changes in a config file etc to fix it but no luck. Finally, they asked me to restore the backup for which I agreed.

that virus also did many changes in my wp files and folder ..I have attached a screenshot.

I have no idea what causes that and to avoid it to happen again in the future. I looked around asking people about it. A few of them from the blogging community on Telegram told me it is due to Rankmath and asked me to deactivate it.
I don’t believe them but I afraid enough so I deactivated rankmath.

RankMath is my most favorite Seo Plugin and I want to keep it, indeed I am in love with Rankmath. Can you guys confirm if there is any security issue with the latest update?
I am not tech-savvy. Best regards

Using theme – Flexmag
- This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jiya Sweet.

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Rank Math
4 years, 4 months ago

Hello,

Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

The Rank Math plugin is not causing the issue in this case.

It seems like you were attacked due to a recent attack on WP. Please read here:
https://twitter.com/unmaskparasites/status/1280581176747601920
https://medium.com/@Daugilas/cross-site-scripting-attack-letsmakeparty3-on-wordpress-cleaned-up-c6819df37c2b
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-attack-7/
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-infection/

Please ensure that you are using the latest plugins/themes & WordPress versions and also no pirated plugin/theme should be used.

You can also follow this guide to secure your site:
https://mythemeshop.com/blog/wordpress-security-tips/

Hope that helps.

mkmeking
4 years, 4 months ago

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Same happened with one of my client’s sites and he did not have Rank Math SEO plugin. Fortunately, I was able to recover his site completely.

Let me know if you need my time removing this malware for you.

Jiya Sweet
4 years, 4 months ago

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Thank You Staff for confirmation..Yes, on-site check I did found a installed plugin that was abandoned by the developer (the last update was in 2017).

anyways..I have reactivated Rank Math on all my 3 sites..thank you

Alberto
4 years, 4 months ago

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Hello Jiya,

We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.

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