[wp-hackers] A tool to check whether the core files were tampered?

Davit Barbakadze jayarjo at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 13:50:41 UTC 2013


wordfence seems to be a perfect solution for the task and useful
plugin in general.

Thanks guys and Simon in particular :)
Davit Barbakadze


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Harris
<contact at stephenharris.info> wrote:
> I use "WordPress File Monitor Plus" (
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/). This provides an
> list of changed files (and optionally gives you email alert), and it looks
> in the plug-in/theme directories too.
>
> But it does a slightly different job than hashchecker - that is, it detects
> changes in the local files rather than comparing local files to the released
> ones. So perhaps it isn't quite what you're after.
>
> Stephen Harris
>
>> Hi. Do you guys have a tool to check whether the core files were
>> tampered? Like a plugin that you install on the WordPress site and it
>> checks all the core files, plugins and themes (taking into account the
>> versions) and outputs in a user-friendly way in the backend?
>>
>> That might be something of immense help to an average dev.
>>
>> I've found this one: http://wordpress.org/plugins/hashchecker/, but it
>> seems to be checking only WordPress files. I imagine something doing
>> similar to plugins and themes. Also this one seems to be abandoned for
>> a couple of years already.
>>
>> Davit Barbakadze
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