Hacked Site – Redirecting to random URL

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  wiblito · Member · Jul 10, 2025 at 4:47 pm

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  It looks like my site has been hacked. It is redirecting to different URLs.

  What can I do?

  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2025 at 5:42 pm

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  Hi there, It’s possibly related to an issue reported by a number of other free WordPress.com site owners follow a change to the advertising on WordPress.com free sites.

  Have a look at these threads and if it is the same on your site, please take and share a screenshot. https://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/

  https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/my-page-got-redirect-to-redirects-to-megadraws-dot-click/

  https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/malvertising/

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2025 at 5:44 pm

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  Ah, which of course you already did. :)

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  wiblito · Member · Jul 10, 2025 at 11:03 pm

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  So, looks like a WP issue that I can do nothing about myself?

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 11, 2025 at 5:03 am

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  If your issue is the same as in the other forum threads I linked to, then this is a problem that only WordPress.com can correct from their side.

  Thing is, it doesn’t seem to affect everyone, also making it harder to track down, otherwise these forums and support would be flooded with thousands of complaints.

  For the meantime, I’m thinking that I’m going to stick up a notice on my free site explaining the issue to my visitors.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 11, 2025 at 8:25 am

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  @wiblito ignore the spam reply from ileads112. Hopefully staff will be by to clean it up.

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  kaichicha · Member · Jul 11, 2025 at 8:49 am

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  Hi @wiblito,

  We’ve received similar reports from other WordPress.com users, and our team is actively working on resolving the issue.

  I’ll share updates here as soon as we have more information.

  In the meantime, please try clearing your browser’s cache to see if that helps:
  How to clear your browser cache

  We appreciate your patience while we work on this!

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 11, 2025 at 9:36 am

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  @kaichicha kindly remove the spam reply from @ileads112 TIA

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  elcristofue · Member · Jul 11, 2025 at 12:58 pm

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  Thanks for the heads-up, @justjennifer! I’ve removed it.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 11, 2025 at 1:00 pm

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  @elcristofue 🙏