Month: November 2025

Security, Tutorials, WordPress

The one SQL query that catches almost every backdoor admin in WordPress

Close-up of WordPress JavaScript source code displaying themes:update functions and wp.updates handlers — typical view when auditing WordPress code (photo: Markus Spiske / Pexels)

If a WordPress site of yours has been compromised — even briefly, even silently — there’s a very good chance it now has at least one administrator account that you didn’t create. Most WP malware families plant one as part …