In our dealing with hacked websites we have recently been working with quite a few people that have come to us after trying to do some work to figure out the source of the hack themselves. They will bring up that they have found reporting that software on the website has had vulnerabilities and those might have been the cause. In reality most of those vulnerabilities have very little chance of being the cause of a website being hacked in general and in some cases they have no chance since the vulnerability didn’t actual exist.

Narrowing down what vulnerabilities could be a possible cause of a website being hacked is good use of our service (and then going forward, getting ahead of vulnerabilities in your website’s plugins by having them reviewed for security issues by us and getting notified of if vulnerabilities are discovered in the version of them you are using). [Read more]