WordPress Site Hacked? Recovery in 3 Hours — £197, No Plugins
The Problem: Hacked Sites Are More Common Than You Think
WordPress powers 43.4% of all websites. It's also the most targeted CMS on the internet — 94% of all CMS malware infections hit WordPress sites.1 If you run a WordPress site that hasn't been hacked yet, statistically, it's not because you're secure — it's because nobody's gotten around to targeting you yet.
Common hack symptoms: redirect to casino/pharma spam, phantom admin accounts in Users panel, Google Safe Browsing warning in search results, malware popups, site crashes after plugin updates, unexplained file modifications, spam emails being sent from your domain.
🛡️ Site showing redirects, warnings, or phantom users? Don't wait — recovery gets harder each hour.
Start Recovery Now →YouTube has hundreds of "how to clean a hacked WordPress site" videos. All between 15-45 minutes. None of them tell you that the actual cleanup, done properly, takes 11+ hours. You need to: scan every file for malware signatures (1-2 hours), manually review wp-content for backdoors (2-3 hours), clean the database of injected content (1-2 hours), compare core files against WordPress checksums (1 hour), reset all passwords and salts (30 min), remove Google blacklist status via Search Console (30 min), and harden the site against re-entry (2-3 hours).
The DIY tutorial shows you 20% of the work and takes 11 hours you don't have. The automated recovery does 100% of it in 3 hours.
The 5-Phase Automated Recovery
- Malware Scanning (Phase 1). Automated signature detection across all files. Known malware patterns, obfuscated PHP, base64-encoded payloads. Full file integrity comparison against WordPress core checksums.
- Database Cleanup (Phase 2). Scan wp_posts, wp_options, wp_usermeta for injected content, hidden admin accounts, redirect scripts. Clean without data loss.
- File Restoration (Phase 3). Remove infected files. Restore clean versions of core WordPress files, plugins, and themes from verified sources.
- Security Hardening (Phase 4). File permissions lockdown, wp-admin access restrictions, XML-RPC disable, login attempt limiting, database prefix change.
- Delisting & Verification (Phase 5). Submit Google Search Console review request. Verify site is clean with multiple scanners. Google warning typically removed within 24-72 hours.
⚡ 5 phases. 3 hours. Done. Your site's first hour of being hacked costs more than the fix.
Clean My Site →Managed WordPress hosting (WP Engine, Kinsta, SiteGround) provides server-level security — firewalls, DDoS protection, automatic updates. They do not clean compromised sites. Their malware removal services are typically paid add-ons (£150-£400) with 48-72 hour turnaround times. And they won't harden the site after cleaning — you'll get infected again from the same vulnerability.
Shared hosting (GoDaddy, HostGator, Bluehost) is worse. One infected site on the shared server can infect all neighbouring sites. The host will suspend your account to protect others — but they won't clean it for you.
The Sovael Comparison
| Recovery Method | Time | Cost | Hardening |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY (tutorials + manual work) | 11-15 hours | Your time (£275-£500) | ✗ |
| Managed host add-on | 48-72 hours | £150-£400 | ✗ |
| Security agency (Sucuri/Wordfence) | 12-24 hours | £250-£500/yr | Partial |
| Sovael Automated Recovery | 3 hours | £197 | ✓ Full |
One service. Zero plugins. 3-hour recovery. £197. Done.
If you have a verified clean backup from before the infection, restoration takes 1-2 hours. But here's the problem: 61% of hacked WordPress sites have backdoors that were planted weeks or months before symptoms appeared.2 Your "clean" backup from last week may already contain the backdoor. Restoring it puts the hacker right back in. The average time between initial compromise and detection is 207 days.3 That backup from last week? Almost certainly infected.
Hackers don't target your site for its content. They target it for its server resources. They want to: send spam (your domain reputation gets burned), host phishing pages (your server IP gets blacklisted), mine cryptocurrency (your hosting bill spikes), and inject SEO spam links (your Google rankings tank). Small sites are actually preferred targets — they're less likely to notice quickly and less likely to have security monitoring in place.
💰 £197 one-time. 3-hour recovery. Full hardening included. No recurring fees.
Recover My Site →30-day guarantee. If the site gets reinfected within 30 days of our recovery, we clean it again — free. The hardening phase eliminates the vulnerability that let the attacker in the first place. Different from managed hosts who clean symptoms but leave the door open.
That's the entire point. You give us access. We run the 5-phase recovery. You get your site back — clean, hardened, Google warning removed. No technical knowledge required from you. 15-minute walkthrough at the end to show you what was done and what to watch for going forward.
Sources & Evidence
- Sucuri — Hacked Website Report 2025. 94% of CMS infections target WordPress.
- Patchstack — WordPress Security Statistics 2025. 43% via outdated plugins.
- Wordfence — Hacked Site Recovery Guide. Average detection time: 207 days.