Your WordPress Site Is
Being Scanned Right Now
You Just Don’t Know It Yet
13,000 WordPress sites get hacked
every single day.
Not because they’re important.
Because they’re there.
No account required · No credit card · Just your URL
43% of the Internet Runs on WordPress.
Hackers Noticed.
WordPress powers nearly half of all websites on the planet.
Your business site. Your competitor’s site. Your dentist’s site. That food blog you visited once in 2019.
And because it’s everywhere, it’s the single most efficient target for cybercriminals. Not because WordPress is broken — because attacking it at scale makes economic sense. Build one scanner. Point it at the internet. Almost every other site you hit runs WordPress.
Here’s what 2025 looked like:
11,334
new vulnerabilities discovered in WordPress plugins and themes
— a 42% increase over 2024.
13,000+
WordPress sites got hacked.
Every day.
1.6 Million
sites attacked in a single 48-hour window
(October 2025).
(Sources: Patchstack State of WordPress Security 2026, Forbes/Wordfence Oct 2025)
None of this is secret. It’s in the news every week. You’ve probably scrolled past a headline about it.
So the situation isn’t the problem. Everybody knows cybercrime exists.
The problem is what happens next.
Sharks Don’t Care
If You Believe In Sharks Or Not
Here’s the uncomfortable bit.
Most WordPress site owners fall into one of two camps:
CAMP A:
“I’ve got a security plugin installed.
I’m fine.”
CAMP B:
“Why would anyone hack my site?
I’m not a bank.”
Both camps get hacked
and
roughly at the same rate.
Because here’s what the data actually say:
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87.8% of WordPress exploits bypass standard hosting defenses.
That managed hosting plan with “enterprise security” on the pricing page?
It blocks port scans and DDoS floods.
It does not understand that version 3.4.1 of your contact form plugin has a hole in it the size of a garage door.
96% of WordPress vulnerabilities are in plugins.
Not WordPress itself — WordPress core had exactly two vulnerabilities in all of 2025.
The problem is the 20-30 plugins you’ve installed.
Each one is a door.
And you probably haven’t checked if any of them are unlocked.
57% of those vulnerabilities require no password to exploit.
No login. No brute force. Just a URL and a known bug.
And the kicker:
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The average time from a vulnerability going public to mass exploitation is 5 hours.
Five. Hours.
Not five days. Not “patch Tuesday.” Five hours.
By the time you read about it in a newsletter, your site has already been scanned, cataloged, and queued for exploitation.
So, whether or not you believe in sharks, they are circling – and you are on the menu.
Sorry to be so dramatic.
This Isn’t Hypothetical.
This Happened Last Month.
October 2025: Wordfence blocked 8.7 million attack attempts targeting 1.6 million WordPress sites in 48 hours. A single plugin vulnerability. Automated bots found it, weaponised it, and hit over a million sites before most owners woke up the next morning. (Forbes, Oct 25, 2025)
October 2025: 14,000+ WordPress sites were hijacked and turned into malware distribution points. Visitors to those sites — your customers — got served fake “browser update” pages that installed malware on their computers. The site owners had no idea. (Mashable, Oct 18, 2025)
March 2025: A cybercrime network called VexTrio was caught using 20,000 compromised WordPress sites as traffic funnels — redirecting visitors through a chain of scam pages. Some of those sites had been compromised for months without the owner noticing. (Dark Reading, Mar 20, 2025)
One business lost $4,000 per day after Google blacklisted their site. Three years of SEO work — gone in an afternoon. The hack had been sitting in their files for weeks before Google flagged it.
These aren’t Fortune 500 companies. These are businesses like yours.
A WooCommerce store. A consultancy. A local service company.
Nobody targeted them specifically.
A bot just found an open door.
The Average Cleanup Bill Is $14,500.
The Security Plugin They Skipped Was $96/Year.
When a WordPress site gets hacked, the damage isn’t just “remove the malware and move on.”
It’s:
- Emergency developer time (weekend rates, naturally)
- Downtime while your site is offline or flagged
- Lost revenue from customers who can’t buy, book, or contact you
- Google penalties that take months to recover from
- The SEO spam injected into your pages that tanks your rankings
- The backdoor the attacker left so they can come back next week
72.7% of hacked WordPress sites contain active malware.
69.6% have backdoors.
46.7% have SEO spam injected into them.
And 73% of WordPress site owners have no recovery plan.
They find out they’ve been hacked when a customer emails them saying “your site is showing viagra ads” — and then they panic.
You Don’t Need a Cybersecurity Degree.
You Need 60 seconds.
Look — we’re not here to scare you to death.
The situation is serious, but the fix isn’t complicated.
It’s three steps:
Step 1: Find Out Where You Actually Stand.
Right now, you either know your site is vulnerable — or you think it’s fine but haven’t actually checked.
Our free WordPress security scan takes your site URL, checks it against known vulnerabilities, exposed configurations, and common attack vectors, and gives you a plain-English report. No jargon. No “CVE-2025-whatever.” Just: here’s what’s open, here’s how bad it is, here’s why it matters.
Takes about 60 seconds. Costs nothing.
Step 2: Close the Doors
Once you know what’s exposed, you fix it.
Two ways to do this:
Do it yourself — Our Fix-It Guide (€19) gives you step-by-step instructions for every issue your scan has found.
Step-by-step instructions, copy-paste code snippets, exact file locations of where to click. No guessing.
Have us do it — Our Security Lockdown (€149) handles everything that can be automated and walks you through the rest. One-time job. Done in 24 hours. Full report of what was fixed and what was hardened.
Either way, the doors get closed.
Step 3: Keep Them Closed
Here’s the thing nobody tells you: security isn’t a one-time project. It’s a process.
New vulnerabilities appear every day (36 per day in 2025, to be exact). Plugins get updated. New exploits get published. That 5-hour window doesn’t care that you hardened your site last month.
Sentinel (€89/month) monitors your site continuously — updates, vulnerability alerts, uptime checks, malware detection. When something changes, you know about it before the bots do.
Think of it as a smoke detector for your website. You don’t check it every day. But when something’s burning, it wakes you up.
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13,000 Sites Got Hacked Today.
Was Yours One of Them?
You probably don’t know. Most people don’t — until it’s too late.
A free scan takes 60 seconds. It either confirms you’re fine (great, sleep well tonight) or shows you exactly what needs fixing before someone else finds it first.
No credit card. No commitment. No pressure. Just answers.
Backed by data from Patchstack, Wordfence, Sucuri, and Melapress. We don’t make up numbers — we just make them easier to understand.