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

Simon Weil simon.weil at naturalint.com
Fri Nov 15 13:54:37 UTC 2013


Glad to have helped :)
By the way, I use it together with "Better Wordpress Security" that among
many other features also sends me an email for every file change - security
wise it is very useful.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Davit Barbakadze <jayarjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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