5 Best WordPress Plugins to Detect Malicious Codes

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) used by people either for simple blogging or other purposes like setting up an e-commerce store. There are plugins and themes to choose from as well. Some of them are free while other are not. Often, a few of these themes are actually uploaded by people who have tweaked them for their own gain.

They could possibly filled with malicious code that can easily hack your blog. Sometimes, backlinks to their sites are also added into these themes and a normal user has no idea how to cope with these backlinks. In this post, we’ve gathered 9 effective tools to deal with malicious code in a WordPress theme or website.

Sucuri Security

Sucuri is a well reputed security and malware scanning WordPress plugin. The main features offered by Sucuri are monitoring files uploaded onto the WordPress website, blacklist monitoring, security notifications and much more

There’s even remote malware scanning with the free Sucuri SiteCheck Scanner. The plugin also offers a powerful website firewall add-on which can be purchased and activated to make your website even more secure.

Anti-Malware

Anti-Malware is a WordPress plugin that can be used to scan and remove viruses, threats and other malicious things that may be present in your WordPress website.

Some of its important features include customized scan, complete scan, quick scan, removal of known threats automatically among many others. You can register the plugin for free at gotmls. If you are not into “phone home” scripts, avoid this plugin as it uses the “phone home” feature to check for updates.

WP Antivirus Site Protection

WP Antivirus Site Protection is a security plugin for scanning WordPress themes as well as all the other files uploaded on your WordPress website.

Main features of WP Antivirus Site Protection includes scanning of each file uploaded on your website, updating their virus database on a regular basis, the removal of malware, sending alerts and notifications via email and lots more. There are also certain features that you can pay for if you want even tighter security.

Quttera Web Malware Scanner

The Quttera Web Malware Scanner helps to scan a website for protection against malicious code injection, viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses, etc.

It offers some nice features such as scanning and detection for unknown malware, blacklisting status, a scan engine with artificial intelligence, detection for external links and much more. You can scan your website to detect malware for free while other services cost $60/Year.

Wordfence

If you’re looking to defend your website against cyber threats, you could try the Wordfence plugin. It provides real-time protection against known attackers, two-factor authentication, blocks an entire malicious network (if detected), scans for known backdoors and does plenty of other things.

The services mentioned are free but there are also some advanced features which you can get with payment.