Hacked WordPress Site? A Step-by-Step Cleanup Checklist
Tested in the ShoHost fix lab on 12 October 2026: WordPress 7.1.3, PHP 8.4, Apache with MariaDB 11.8. Every screenshot below is from that lab, not from a customer site. Safety note: Every “attack” in this guide was a harmless marker (text strings and example.com links) planted on a throwaway local WordPress install. Nothing here…